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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2008
Yasuhiro Monde, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuro Hayami, Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Monde, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuro Hayami, Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A navigation system includes: an angular velocity sensorfor detecting a change in an advancement direction of a vehicle; a vehicle azimuth calculation unitfor calculating a vehicle azimuth on the basis of angular velocity sensor information obtained from the angular velocity sensor; an on-board camerafor shooting a periphery of the vehicle; an image recognition unitfor recognizing an image obtained from the on-board camera; and an offset voltage correction unitfor performing a drift correction on the angular velocity sensor in accordance with an angle error between the vehicle azimuth calculated by the vehicle azimuth calculation unit and a vehicle azimuth determined from a white line on a road recognized by the image recognition unit.