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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Miki, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an object detection apparatus (), a sorting unit () obtains data indicating a measurement result of a distance of each signal that a sensor () radiated from the sensor (). The sorting unit () sorts the data obtained into first data indicating that the distance was not measured, second data indicating a distance to one or more obstacles, and third data indicating a distance to the ground. A determination unit (), by referring to the third data, determines whether or not the ground exists in a first area which is a radiation destination area of a signal corresponding to the first data. An estimation unit () estimates, when the determination unit () determines that the ground exists in the first area, and when the first area and a second area, which is a radiation destination area of a signal corresponding to the second data, are adjacent, that one obstacle exists straddling the first area and the second area.