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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:
Aug. 24, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2006
Applicants:

Shino Oonishi, Okazaki, JP;

Takaaki Nakayama, Okazaki, JP;

Inventors:

Shino Oonishi, Okazaki, JP;

Takaaki Nakayama, Okazaki, JP;

Assignee:

Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Anjo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A route guidance systems, methods, and programs detect a current position of a vehicle and search for a route to a destination based on the vehicle position. The systems, methods, and programs set a recommended travel lane based on the searched route and determine whether the vehicle is in a particular lane, the determination based on image data of lane demarcation lines, the image data obtained by a camera attached to the vehicle. When the particular lane cannot be determined, the systems, methods, and programs predict the lane in which the vehicle is driving based on the image data and execute lane guidance based on the predicted driving lane.


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