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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2013
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Young Chul Oh, Seongnam-si, KR;
Myung Seon Heo, Seoul, KR;
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for recognizing a vehicle. The apparatus includes a sensor configured to provide point cloud data corresponding to a front object detected by using a LiDAR; a shape determiner configured to determines a shape corresponding to the front object by analyzing the point cloud data provided by the sensor; a receiving sensitivity analyzer configured to analyze a receiving sensitivity change corresponding to each point of the point cloud data provided by the sensor based on the shape of the vehicle; a decider configured to decide whether the front object is a vehicle according to the shape corresponding to the front object and the receiving sensitivity change corresponding to points of the point cloud; and a detector configured to recognize and detect the front object as the vehicle based on the result decided by the decider.