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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2020
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Yohei Taniguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
An autonomous speed control function for autonomously controlling a traveling speed of the vehicle and an autonomous steering control function for autonomously controlling steering of the vehicle include executing first autonomous control where, when an external situation of the vehicle is recognizable from a captured image by a camera on the vehicle, the vehicle is autonomously controlled using information recognized from the captured image; executing second autonomous control in which information indicating the external situation of the vehicle is acquired from stored map information provided in the vehicle and the vehicle is autonomously controlled using the acquired information; specifying an unrecognizable area in which the external situation of the vehicle is unrecognizable from the captured image; and when the unrecognizable area is present on a travel route of the vehicle, switching from the first autonomous control to the second autonomous control before the vehicle enters the unrecognizable area.