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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Kyoung-wook Min, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong-dan Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Kyoung-Wook Min, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong-Dan Choi, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for recognizing the location of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a landmark recognition unit, a distance recognition unit, and a vehicle location calculation unit. The landmark recognition unit receives information about images of landmarks, indicated around a road in a direction in which the vehicle is traveling, from an image sensor, and recognizes a reference landmark closest to the vehicle based on the image information. The distance recognition unit collects values of distances to the reference landmark from the range sensor. The vehicle location calculation unit calculates the final location of the vehicle based on basic information about the reference landmark and the distance values.