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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Fujiki, Edogawa-ku, JP;
Ryusuke Kuroda, Edogawa-ku, JP;
Tadashi Okubo, Machida, JP;
Kenichiro Aoki, Machida, JP;
Tetsuro Sugiura, Chofu, JP;
Wataru Kawashima, Nisshin, JP;
Hitoshi Kamada, Kawasaki, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for object detection detects a number of lanes included in a road on which a vehicle is traveling, detects one or more surrounding vehicles positioned in surroundings of the vehicle from a surrounding image showing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a camera mounted in the vehicle, and determines, when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes detected in a predetermined range at the back of the vehicle are detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle, that a possibility that any one of the surrounding vehicles being an emergency vehicle which is allowed to travel without obeying the traveling rule of the road is higher than when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes are not detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle.