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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Manabu Yoshida, Musashino, JP;
Yuki Yokohata, Musashino, JP;
Kouhei Mori, Musashino, JP;
Takahiro Hata, Musashino, JP;
Atsuhiko Maeda, Musashino, JP;
Ippei Shake, Musashino, JP;
Satoshi Fukada, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lane pricing technique for charging a mobile body traveling on a road for use of a lane is provided. A lane pricing device according to one embodiment is configured to: acquire from a mobile body traveling on a road, at least one of position information of a mobile body measured based on a positioning signal, and/or a camera image that is acquired by capturing an image from the mobile body and includes a part of a lane in which the mobile body is moving; specify, based on at least one of the position information and/or the camera image, a lane in which the mobile body is moving; acquire lane identification information for identifying a specified lane along with time information indicative of time when the mobile body is moving; and determine and output a toll to be charged to the mobile body in units of lanes based on the lane identification information and the time information.