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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Hideaki Morita, Okazaki, JP;
Makoto Hasunuma, Okazaki, JP;
Yusuke Ohashi, Okazaki, JP;
Motohiro Nakamura, Toyota, JP;
Hideaki Morita, Okazaki, JP;
Makoto Hasunuma, Okazaki, JP;
Yusuke Ohashi, Okazaki, JP;
Motohiro Nakamura, Toyota, JP;
Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Anjo, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and programs for determining whether a vehicle is off-road or on-road, store map data, determine the vehicle's current position; and obtain information about an area around the current position of the vehicle from the stored map data. The systems, methods, and programs obtain information related to a road-side zone of a road from the obtained information about the area around the current position of the vehicle, and determine that the road-side zone is crossed. The systems, methods, and programs may make an off-road determination if the determined current position of the vehicle was on-road before the crossing of the road-side zone and make an on-road determination if the current position of the vehicle was off-road before the crossing of the road-side zone.