MOVING OBJECT TRAJECTORY ESTIMATING DEVICE

• US 20090252380A1
• Filed: 03/30/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US12/413,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20090252380A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/107
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking

Abstract

A moving object trajectory estimating device has: a surrounding information acquisition part that acquires information on surroundings of a moving object; a trajectory estimating part that specifies another moving object around the moving object based on the acquired surrounding information and estimates a trajectory of the specified moving object; and a recognition information acquisition part that acquires recognition information on a recognizable area of the specified moving object, and the trajectory estimating part estimates a trajectory of the specified moving object, based on the acquired recognition information of the specified moving object.

Claims

1. A moving object trajectory estimating device, comprising:

a surrounding information acquisition part that acquires information on surroundings of a moving object;

a trajectory estimating part that specifies another moving object around the moving object based on the surrounding information acquired by the surrounding information acquisition part and estimates a trajectory of the specified moving object; and

a recognition information acquisition part that acquires recognition information on a recognizable area of the specified moving object,

wherein the trajectory estimating part estimates the trajectory of the specified moving object based on the recognition information of the specified moving object acquired by the recognition information acquisition part.

2. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 1, wherein the recognition information acquisition part acquires, from the specified moving object, information that includes the recognizable area.

3. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 2, wherein the recognizable area of the specified moving object is a visible area of the specified moving object.

4. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 2, wherein the recognition information acquisition part acquires information that includes the recognizable area of the specified moving object through communication with the specified moving object.

5. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 4, wherein the recognizable area of the specified moving object is a visible area of the specified moving object.

6. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 2, wherein the recognition information acquisition part acquires information that includes the recognizable area of the specified moving object, based on individual information on the specified moving object.

7. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 6, wherein the recognizable area of the selected moving object is a visible area of the selected moving object.

8. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 6, wherein the individual information on the specified moving object is individual blind spot information on the specified moving object.

9. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 1, wherein the recognition information acquisition part acquires information that includes the recognizable area of the specified moving object, based on map information that includes information on the height of a road structure.

10. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 9, wherein the recognizable area of the selected moving object is a visible area of the selected moving object.

11. The moving object trajectory estimating device according to claim 1, wherein the moving object trajectory estimating device is adopted to an automatically driven vehicle that determines a trajectory of the moving object based on the estimated trajectory of the specified moving object and automatically controls the moving object.