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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2015
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/06 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); B60R 2300/107 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8053 (2013.01);
Abstract
A driver assistance apparatus and a vehicle including the same are disclosed. The driver assistance apparatus includes a stereo camera, a memory to store road surface data regarding a state of a road surface classified into a dry state, a wet state, a snow covered state, and an icy state, and a processor to classify the state of the road surface as any one of the dry state, the wet state, the snow covered state, and the icy state based on stereo images received from the stereo camera and the road surface data. Consequently, it is possible to recognize a current road surface state.