Patent ID: 8600655

Claim:
A road marking recognition system for a vehicle, comprising: a camera disposed on the vehicle that captures an image of a periphery of the vehicle; a memory that stores: locations of different types of road markings formed on road surfaces; and a plurality of wear patterns associated with each type of road marking, each wear pattern indicating a wear condition of the associated road marking and each stored wear pattern comprising measurement starting points in a plurality of locations; and a controller that: detects a road marking on the basis of the image captured by the camera; compares the detected road marking to the stored wear patterns; if the detected road marking matches one of the stored wear patterns; determines that the detected road marking is the stored type of road marking that is associated with the matching stored wear pattern; selects one of the measurement starting points from the plurality of measurement starting points on the basis of the matching stored wear pattern; calculates a distance between the vehicle and the detected road marking based on the selected measurement starting point; and executes a predetermined action associated with the stored type of road marking that is associated with the matching stored wear pattern and the calculated distance.