MOBILE OBJECT POSITION DETECTING DEVICE

• US 20110106444A1
• Filed: 02/19/2009
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Adachi, Akito, Yamada, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US13/001,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20110106444A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/208
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096758 where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication

Abstract

A mobile object position detecting device 1 which matches the position of another vehicle existing in a predetermined region to the map information regarding the predetermined region includes: a vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit 2 which receives the positional information and the moving state information regarding another vehicle; a road-to-vehicle communication unit 3 which acquires the road environment information including the road environment in the predetermined region; a determination section 4a which determines whether or not a traveling state of another vehicle complies with the road environment; and a matching section 4b which matches the position of another vehicle to the map information according to a result of the determination by the determination section 4a. Accordingly, the mobile object position detecting device capable of precisely matching the position of a mobile object to the map information is provided.

Claims

1. A mobile object position detecting device which matches the position of a mobile object existing in a predetermined region to map information regarding the predetermined region, comprising:

a receiving means for receiving positional information and moving state information regarding the mobile object;

an acquisition means for acquiring road environment information in the predetermined region; and

a matching means for matching the position of the mobile object to the map information on the basis of the positional information, the moving state information, and the road environment information,

wherein the road environment information includes information indicating the existence of a stop sign, a signal state, and a speed limit on a road in the predetermined region.

2. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the mobile object position detecting device is mounted in a vehicle, and

the mobile object is another vehicle, and the moving state information includes a traveling state of the another vehicle.

3. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a determination means for determining whether or not the traveling state complies with the road environment included in the road environment information,

wherein the matching means matches the position of the another vehicle to the map information according to a result of the determination by the determination means.

4. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 3,

wherein, when the determination means determines that the traveling state does not comply with the road environment, the matching means matches the position of the another vehicle to a road, which is adjacent to the position of the another vehicle in the map information and which has the road environment that the traveling state complies with.

6. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 4, wherein the traveling state includes a speed of the another vehicle.

7. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 6, wherein the determination means determines that the traveling state does not comply with the road environment when the another vehicle does not stop at the stop sign and when the speed of the another vehicle is higher than the speed limit by a predetermined value.

8. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 2, wherein the traveling state includes acceleration and a lighting state of a blinker of the another vehicle.

9. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the positional information is created by measuring the position of the another vehicle with a GPS, and

the receiving means receives the positional information and the moving state information from the another vehicle through vehicle-to-vehicle communication between the vehicle and the another vehicle.

10. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 2, wherein the acquisition means acquires the road environment information from a transmitter, which is provided in the predetermined region, through road-to-vehicle communication between the vehicle and the transmitter.

11. The mobile object position detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display means for displaying map information with positional information which is created by matching the position of the mobile object to the map information.

5. (canceled)