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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2023
Applicant:

Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Inventors:

Genki Kitahara, Kariya, JP;

Tomohito Terazawa, Kariya, JP;

Yasuhiko Mukai, Kariya, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01C 21/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3896 (2020.08); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); G01C 21/32 (2013.01); G01C 21/3807 (2020.08); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02);
Abstract

A map server includes a difficult place setting unit, a distribution map generation unit, and a distribution processing unit. The difficult place setting unit identifies, based on a cancel point report from a vehicle, a difficult place which is a point where vehicle control involving a driving support or automatic driving is highly likely cancelled. The distribution map generation unit generates, as a map of a difficult place area related to the difficult place, distribution maps respectively including map information denser than a map of a normal area that is an area other than the difficult place area. The distribution maps of the normal area, which does not include detailed map information, contributes to a reduction of data amount in an entire map distribution scheme, when, for example, distributing map data over the network.


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