Patent ID: 11881004
Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A platoon vehicle discrimination apparatus configured to discriminate a platoon vehicle candidate to be organized into a platoon with a first vehicle from among surrounding vehicles located in a region around the first vehicle, the platoon vehicle discrimination apparatus comprising:
a storage section configured to store identification information of the first vehicle;
an acquiring section configured to acquire, from a second vehicle that is any one of the surrounding vehicles, identification information of a third vehicle located in a region around the second vehicle and location information of the second vehicle with respect to the third vehicle, the identification information of the third vehicle being read by the second vehicle, the location information of the second vehicle being specified by the second vehicle; and
a discrimination section configured to make a comparison between the identification information of the first vehicle stored in the storage section and the identification information of the third vehicle acquired by the acquiring section, and discriminate the second vehicle as the platoon vehicle candidate from among the surrounding vehicles on a basis of a result of the comparison and the location information of the second vehicle with respect to the third vehicle, the location information of the second vehicle being acquired by the acquiring section.