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Automatic driving system for automatically driven vehicle

  • US 10,005,458 B2
  • Filed: 11/24/2015
  • Issued: 06/26/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An automatic driving system for an automatically driven vehicle, comprising:

  • a central processing unit (CPU);

    a memory;

    one or more integrated circuits;

    a travel direction acquirer, using the CPU and the one or more integrated circuits, configured to acquire travel direction information that is information indicative of whether or not each roadway in a parking lot is unidirectional; and

    an allowance determination unit, using the CPU and the one or more integrated circuits, configured to, if determining, based on the travel direction information acquired by the travel direction acquirer, that each roadway in the parking lot is unidirectional, allow automatic driving of the automatically driven vehicle,whereinthe travel direction acquirer is configured to acquire, as the travel direction information, a rule for travel directions of the roadways in the parking lot and travel directions in which vehicles actually travel in the roadways in the parking lot, andthe allowance determination unit is configured to, if determining, based on the rule for the travel directions included in the travel direction information, that each of the roadways in the parking lot is unidirectional, and if determining, based on the travel directions in which the vehicles actually travel included in the travel direction information, that the travel directions in which the vehicles actually travel in the roadways in the parking lot coincide with the travel directions of the roadways in the parking lot defined by the rule, allow automatic driving of an automatically driven vehicle.

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