Patent ID: 11903897
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A walking support system that is able to perform a stop notification to a pedestrian before a crosswalk in a situation where the pedestrian approaches the crosswalk, the walking support system comprising:
an image acquisition unit that acquires an image in front of the pedestrian who is walking;
a crosswalk detection unit that is able to recognize the crosswalk based on the image acquired by the image acquisition unit and that is able to detect an edge position of the crosswalk closer to the pedestrian;
a notification unit that performs the stop notification for urging the pedestrian to stop when the pedestrian reaches a position before the edge position of the crosswalk closer to the pedestrian, the edge position having been detected by the crosswalk detection unit; and
an edge position setting unit that sets an edge position of an obstacle closer to the pedestrian in the image acquired by the image acquisition unit as the edge position of the crosswalk closer to the pedestrian, when the crosswalk detection unit fails to detect the edge position of the crosswalk closer to the pedestrian due to the obstacle existing on the crosswalk.