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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2021
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Chisato Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/11 (2017.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/06 (2013.01); G06T 7/00 (2013.01); G06V 20/588 (2022.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract
A road deterioration diagnosing device acquires an image capturing a road and a date and a time when the image was captured as well as a location and a direction in which the image was captured, detects deterioration of the road surface shown in the acquired image, calculates a direction in which a shadow of a building may be formed over the road surface shown in the image using the date, the time, the location, and the direction, and determines a possibility of erroneous detection of the deterioration on the basis of the direction in which the road surface deteriorates and the direction in which the shadow may be formed.