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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Takahisa Yokoyama, Kariya, JP;
Noriyuki Ido, Kariya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle position determination device mountable to a vehicle, the vehicle position determination device including an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image that is road information for identifying a position of the vehicle and is represented by a small displacement with respect to the vehicle, and a control unit that compares the road information with road characteristic information indicating an absolute position of a predetermined point and determines a vehicle position according to a result of the comparison; the road information includes at least one of road shape information indicating a shape of a road surface in a direction of travel of the vehicle and road pattern information indicating a pattern on a road surface.