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

Claim 15:
16. A path providing method, performed by a path providing device configured to provide path information to a vehicle, the method comprising:
receiving, from a server, map information including a plurality of layers of data;
receiving, from one or more sensors disposed at the vehicle, sensing information including an image received from an image sensor;
identifying a lane in which the vehicle is located among a plurality of lanes of a road based on the sensing information;
determining an optimal path for guiding the vehicle from the identified lane, the optimal path comprising one or more lanes included in the map information;
generating autonomous driving visibility information and transmitting 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;
updating the optimal path based on dynamic information related to a movable object located in the optimal path and the autonomous driving visibility information;
receiving different types of sensor data from a plurality of sensors disposed at the vehicle;
updating 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; and
fusing sensor data in a different manner according to a sensing range of each of the plurality of sensors, a first sensor of the plurality of sensors having a sensing range of a first radius based on the vehicle, a second sensor of the plurality of sensors having a sensing range of a second radius, and the second radius being longer than the first radius from a location of the vehicle,
wherein fusing the sensor data comprises:
fusing 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

wherein updating the optimal path comprises:
updating the optimal path only using sensor data of the second sensor in a section between the first radius and the second radius.