Patent ID: 11965754
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a creation section configured to create a map of a surrounding area of a first mobile body based on sensor information acquired by at least one sensor mounted on the first mobile body, wherein the map includes a first grid map indicating object existence probabilities in respective grids;
a request section configured to:
issue a first information request to an external apparatus based on a state of the map; and
acquire information from the external apparatus, wherein the acquired information is a second grid map;

a merge section configured to merge the first grid map with the second grid map; and
a control section configured to control driving of the first mobile body based on one of a merging result or the map created by the creation section, wherein the merging result is based on the merger of the first grid map with the second grid map.