Patent ID: 11872987
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A path providing device configured to provide a path information to a vehicle, the device comprising:
a communication unit, configured to receive, from a server, map information including a plurality of layers of data; and
a processor configured to:
identify a lane in which the vehicle is located among a plurality of lanes of a road based on sensing information received from one or more sensors disposed at the vehicle and including an image received from an image sensor,
determine an optimal path for guiding the vehicle from the identified lane, the optimal path comprising one or more lanes included in the map information,
generate autonomous driving visibility information and transmit the generated autonomous driving visibility information to at least one of the server or an electric component disposed at the vehicle based on the sensing information and the determined optimal path, to thereby cause the vehicle to perform autonomous driving according to the autonomous driving visibility information, and
update the optimal path based on dynamic information related to a movable object located on the optimal path and the autonomous driving visibility information,

wherein the processor is configured to receive different types of sensor data from a plurality of sensors disposed at the vehicle, and update at least one of the autonomous driving visibility information or the optimal path based on information generated by combining at least two types of sensor data,
wherein the processor is configured to fuse sensor data in a different manner according to a sensing range of each of the plurality of sensors,
wherein a first sensor of the plurality of sensors has a sensing range of a first radius based on the vehicle,
wherein a second sensor of the plurality of sensors has a sensing range of a second radius, the second radius being longer than the first radius from a location of the vehicle, and
wherein the processor is configured to:
fuse sensor data sensed by the first sensor and the second sensor up to the first radius to update the optimal path using the fused sensor data, and
update the optimal path only using sensor data of the second sensor in a section between the first radius and the second radius.