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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2024
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Onimaru, Tokyo, JP;
Atsuki Kakinuma, Tokyo, JP;
Takeo Tokunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuo Oishi, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Iihoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A road surface evaluation apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The memory stores map information including roughness information indicating a roughness of a surface of a road, and the microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring as driving information of a plurality of vehicles driving on the road, position information of the plurality of vehicles, acceleration information indicating accelerations of the plurality of vehicles, driving image information including a captured image of the surface of the road, and driving sound information indicating driving sound of the plurality of vehicles; evaluating the roughness of the surface of the road based on the driving information of the plurality of vehicles; and updating the roughness information corresponding to the road stored in the memory based on an evaluation result in the evaluating.