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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2011
Kazunao Yamada, Toyota, JP;
Yusuke Mizuno, Anjo, JP;
Yasushi Sakuma, Chita-gun, JP;
Nobuhiro Mizuno, Ichihara, JP;
Kazunao Yamada, Toyota, JP;
Yusuke Mizuno, Anjo, JP;
Yasushi Sakuma, Chita-gun, JP;
Nobuhiro Mizuno, Ichihara, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle drive control apparatus for use in a vehicle collects the number of travels in each of road sections in a traveled route for each of travel directions, extracts road sections having been traveled for more than a threshold number for each of travel directions, and stores extracted road sections as control section data maps in a durable storage medium. If the vehicle travels into the road sections stored as the control section data map, the 'stored-as-the-map' road sections are identified as a series of road sections of high-travel-probability. In this manner, a series of road sections can be accurately identified as a high-probability section without having a user input of a travel destination or the like.