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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Takuma Otsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Sawada, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoharu Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Naonori Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and methods of estimating a traffic volume of moving objects. In particular, the present disclosure estimates the traffic volume based on amounts of traffic volume of the moving objects observed at observation points based on a routing matrix and a visitor matrix. The routing matrix indicates whether moving objects that pass through specific waypoints are to be observed at an observation point. The visitor matrix indicates whether a moving object departing or arriving at the observation point. The present disclosure enables estimating a traffic volume of moving objects on various routes based on observed data with errors in data and varying lengths in observation periods.