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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yu Okada, Ichikawa, JP;
Shota Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Eiki Kitagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Suzuka Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Soichi Yoshino, Ichikawa, JP;
Takuo Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A travel controller generates routes respectively leading from a current lane being traveled by a vehicle to lanes except the current lane. The lanes are demarcated by lane lines and located forward in a travel direction beyond a lack-of-lane zone having no lane line. The travel controller further identifies one of the routes corresponding to a path along which the vehicle is traveling the lack-of-lane zone as a route being traveled. The path is calculated with data outputted from a sensor mounted on the vehicle. Then the travel controller controls travel of the vehicle to keep one of the lanes to which the route being traveled leads.