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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
May. 30, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsuhiko Maeda, Musashino, JP;
Manabu Yoshida, Musashino, JP;
Yuki Yokohata, Musashino, JP;
Ippei Shake, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sidewalk information generation device includes a thinning unit configured to perform thinning processing for extracting, from image data indicating an area of a sidewalk, a centerline in a width direction of the area of the sidewalk, a segmentation unit configured to perform segmentation processing for dividing the centerline extracted by the thinning unit in a longitudinal direction to generate a plurality of lines, and a vectorization unit configured to convert each of the plurality of lines generated by the segmentation unit to vector data indicating a coordinate sequence of a plurality of line segments.