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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2008
Yasufumi Kojima, Gifu, JP;
Hiroshi Takeda, Nagoya, JP;
Kosuke Hara, Hachioji, JP;
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A location range setting apparatus includes: a location information acquiring unit for acquiring location information indicating the location of a mobile object; a road information acquiring unit for acquiring road segment information indicating a specific segment of a road; a segment determining unit for associating the location information with corresponding road segment information; a storage unit for storing a plurality of pieces of location information and road segment information respectively as learned data; a clustering unit for clustering the plurality of pieces of road segment information included in the learned data into at least a first cluster or a second cluster; and a location range setting unit for determining first and second ranges for the location of the mobile object from the road segment information included in the first and second clusters, respectively.