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OBJECT RECOGNITION DEVICE

  • US 20180005056A1
  • Filed: 09/12/2017
  • Published: 01/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle comprising:

  • a sensor input unit including a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) device, said LIDAR device including a laser ray transmission unit to transmit a plurality of laser rays so as to scan a surrounding area of the vehicle; and

    a laser ray reception unit to receive reflected laser rays from the surrounding area of the vehicle;

    a coordinate specifying unit to specify coordinates of reflection points for said reflected laser rays;

    a reliability setting unit to indicate an object presence reliability value of whether an object is present in the surrounding area of the vehicle, said object presence reliability value being one of a continuous range of values;

    a distribution map creation unit to create a distribution map of the object presence reliability values in the surrounding area of the vehicle; and

    a region division unit to divide the distribution map into at least one region, wherein each region is an area of said distribution map having continuous object presence reliability values that are equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.

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