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Apparatus and method for determining available driving space

  • US 9,529,088 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2015
  • Issued: 12/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for determining an available driving space, the apparatus comprising:

  • a laser distance sensor installed in a vehicle and configured to sense a region in front of the vehicle by a predetermined distance to generate distance information;

    a signal processing unit configured to generate plane distance information by using the distance information generated by the laser distance sensor;

    a curb searching unit configured to determine correlation and similarity between the generated plane distance information and previous plane distance information to search for a curb; and

    a determining unit configured to determine whether the region in front of the vehicle by the predetermined distance is an available driving space depending on whether a route of a curb searched by the curb searching unit is included in a driving region.

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