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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Manabu Nagai, Nagoya Aichi-ken, JP;
Suguru Watanabe, Nagoya Aichi-ken, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An intersection control apparatus controls entries of vehicles into an intersection. The intersection control apparatus includes an intersection environment information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of types of intersection environment information, an information conversion unit configured to encode the intersection environment information into a predetermined bit length for each type of the intersection environment information, an intersection control information generation unit configured to generate at least one intersection control information piece by integrating the plurality of types of intersection environment information through bit operations, and an intersection control unit configured to control the entries of the vehicles into the intersection using the at least one intersection control information piece.