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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2022
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kambara, Tokyo, JP;
STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To accurately identify positions of preceding vehicles. A vehicle position identification apparatus having a controller, where the controller (a) acquires position data of each forward vehicle, each position data including a left side position and a right side position of each forward vehicle, and (b) for each position data at a first time and a second time, associates the left side position with a first axis and the right side position with a second axis and obtains a distance between each of the position data on coordinates, or obtains the amount of change in the left side position along the first axis and the amount of change in the right side position along the second axis, and based on the distance or each of the amount of change, identifies a correspondence relationship between each of the position data and each forward vehicle and generates data which indicates the correspondence relationship.