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Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 08, 2014
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroki Okada, Musashino, JP;

Ryo Neyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3658 (2013.01); B62D 15/021 (2013.01); G01C 21/3446 (2013.01);
Abstract

A lane guidance system for a vehicle for guiding a vehicle to a recommended lane in which the vehicle is recommended to run out of traffic lanes included in a route from a first point to a second point through the use of an output unit mounted on the vehicle includes: a calculating unit that calculates a predicted value of an occurrence probability of sudden lane change as information indicating the occurrence probability of sudden lane change when the vehicle runs in sections corresponding to a plurality of links; a setting unit that sets the recommended lane on the basis of the predicted value; and a generating unit that generates guidance information for the recommended lane and that outputs the guidance information to the output unit.


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