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

Claim 13:
14. An information processing method, comprising:
creating a map of a surrounding area of a mobile body based on sensor information acquired by at least one sensor mounted on the mobile body, wherein the map includes a first grid map indicating object existence probabilities in respective grids;
issuing an information request to an external apparatus based on a state of the map;
acquiring information from the external apparatus, wherein the acquired information is a second grid map;
merging the first grid map with the second grid map; and
controlling driving of the mobile body based on one of a merging result or the created map, wherein the merging result is based on the merger of the first grid map with the second grid map.