US Patent Application 18029464. WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION METHOD simplified abstract
WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION METHOD
Organization Name
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Inventor(s)
Takumi Kashihara of Tokyo (JP)
WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION METHOD - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18029464 titled 'WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND WRONG-WAY DRIVING DETERMINATION METHOD
Simplified Explanation
This patent application describes a system for determining if a vehicle is driving in the wrong direction. Here are the key points:
- The system uses a surroundings monitoring sensor to gather information about the vehicle's surroundings.
- A road information generation unit uses this information to generate details about the road, including the location and proper direction of each lane.
- A travel state information calculation unit uses the surroundings information to determine the location and direction of the vehicle on the road.
- A wrong-way driving determination unit calculates the possibility of the vehicle driving in the wrong direction based on the road information and the vehicle's travel state information.
- The system then determines if the vehicle is indeed driving the wrong way based on the value of the wrong-way driving possibility.
Original Abstract Submitted
In a wrong-way driving determination apparatus, a road information generation unit generates, based on surroundings information acquired by a surroundings monitoring sensor of a subject vehicle, road information including information on a location and a proper direction of travel of each lane of a road on which the subject vehicle is traveling. A travel state information calculation unit calculates, based on the surroundings information, travel state information including information on a location and a direction of travel of the subject vehicle on the road on which the subject vehicle is traveling. A wrong-way driving determination unit calculates a wrong-way driving possibility of the subject vehicle based on the road information and the travel state information, and determines whether the subject vehicle is traveling the wrong way based on a value of the wrong-way driving possibility.
