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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Eiki Kitagawa, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for displaying lane information detects a lane change section in an adjoining lane adjoining a travel lane of a vehicle from an image representing surroundings of the vehicle. The lane change section has a length in a travel direction greater than a lane change threshold indicating a length required for a lane change and includes no other vehicles. The apparatus presents an entry position on a display as a position indicating the lane change section when the entry position is inside the lane change section, and presents an endpoint of the lane change section closest to a current position of the vehicle on the display as a position indicating the lane change section when the entry position is outside the lane change section. The entry position is a position in a front-back direction at which the vehicle making a lane enters the adjoining lane.