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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Ken Tanabe, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting a lane boundary includes one or more processors configured to: input an image representing a region around a vehicle into a classifier to identify the types of objects represented in respective pixels of the image, and detect a boundary of the travel lane by determining, for each of pixel lines in a direction crossing the travel lane in the image, whether the position corresponding to a pixel group including a predetermined number of contiguous pixels is inside the travel lane in order along a scanning direction from one end to the other end of the pixel line, depending on the order of the types of objects represented in the pixel group and the result of determination whether the position corresponding to the immediately preceding pixel group with respect to the scanning direction is inside the travel lane.