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VEHICLE-USE SIGNAL INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND VEHICLE-USE SIGNAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AS WELL AS DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD

  • US 20140046509A1
  • Filed: 05/13/2011
  • Published: 02/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A signal information processing device for a vehicle that processes signal information containing information on a state of a traffic light, the signal information processing device comprising:

  • a signal information estimating section which obtains signal information corresponding to a first traffic light, also obtains information on a relationship between a case in which a traffic of a vehicle is prompted and a case in which the traffic is inhibited as a driving environment for a vehicle corresponding to a second traffic light that is installed at a different location from the first traffic light, and estimates an instruction period at which the second traffic light instructs the vehicle to move forward or to stop as signal information on the second traffic light through a calculation based on the signal information corresponding to the first traffic light and the obtained information on the driving environment for the vehicle.

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