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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masashi Nishikado, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701 23 ; 701 25 ; 701300 ; 15319 ; 180169 ;
Abstract
An autonomous vehicle has a distance measuring sensor that periodically measures the distance to an object using a prescribed period and it's movement is controlled in accordance with the distance measured by the distance measuring sensor. A controller that controls the prescribed period based on the moving speed and the measured distance so that the prescribed period is made shorter as the moving speed increases and the distance to the object becomes shorter.