Patent ID: 11861841
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 4:
5. A lane estimation device comprising a processor and a memory connected to the processor, the processor configured to:
acquire image data obtained by imaging a range including a road region in which a moving object is moving, and store the acquired image data in the memory;
read out the image data stored in the memory, recognize a shape indicating the road region from the image data, and acquire, based on the recognized shape indicating the road region, pixel value data labeled for each pixel in the road region as a feature value of the road region; and
estimate a lane in which the moving object is moving by determining which of a plurality of patterns preset for the road region or patterns preset for each lane included in the road region the acquired pixel value data is similar to.