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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2015
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Naoki Kawasaki, Kariya, JP;
Syunya Kumano, Gothenburg, SE;
Shunsuke Suzuki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tetsuya Takafuji, Anjo, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a turnoff from a roadway. In the apparatus, a white-line candidate extractor applies image processing to an image of surroundings of a subject vehicle acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera to extract white-line candidates in the roadway. A white-line likelihood calculator calculates, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate. A white-line likelihood calculator calculates, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate. A turnoff determiner calculates a likelihood for one of a plurality of features of the white line selected by the white-line selector, and determines the presence or absence of a turnoff from the roadway based on the likelihood calculated by the turnoff determiner.