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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Shota Makita, Nagoya, JP;
Satoshi Takeyasu, Musashino, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for estimating distance inputs an outside image representing the situation around a vehicle and obtained from a camera mounted on the vehicle into a classifier to detect a vehicle region representing a target vehicle and to classify the target vehicle represented in the detected vehicle region as one of preregistered types of vehicles. The apparatus then identifies the position of a virtual object corresponding to the target vehicle represented in the vehicle region, and estimates the distance from the vehicle to the virtual object as the distance from the vehicle to the target vehicle.