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Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kazuhito Akiyama, Tokyo, JP;

Eisuke Kanzaki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Hiroya Ogihara, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 21/3415 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); H04W 4/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for notifying a mobile body that the mobile body is approaching a particular area comprising calculating a plurality of areas where the mobile body may arrive on the basis of dynamic map information; calculating, for each event occurring in the plurality of areas, an arriving probability of arriving at a region affected by the event; extracting an avoidance position for enabling the mobile body to avoid arriving at the region affected by the event; calculating an encountering probability of meeting the region affected by the event on the basis of a reliability of the event, the arriving probability, and the avoidance position, and notifying the mobile body of the encountering probability.


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