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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2024
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle lane recognition apparatus includes: an image capturer that captures an image of an external traveling environment; a disturbance determiner that compares a traveling environment image depicting the traveling environment and a comparative image depicting an equivalent traveling environment, and determines that a disturbance factor that impairs visibility is shown in the traveling environment image when a brightness average in the traveling environment image is lower than a brightness average in the comparative image and a difference between the brightness average in the traveling environment image and a brightness average in the comparative image is equal to or larger than a threshold; and a lane estimator that estimates a lane based on the traveling environment image. When estimating the lane, the lane estimator replaces information on the traveling environment image including the disturbance factor with information on the traveling environment image that is different by one or several frames.
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