Patent Document ID: 9665780
Application ID: 14665244
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A travel division line recognition apparatus mounted to an own vehicle, comprising: a processor configured to: extract a travel division line candidate from an image of a surrounding environment including a road, captured by an on-board camera mounted in the own vehicle, the travel division line candidate being a candidate for a travel division line on the road; calculate a degree of reliability that the travel division line candidate extracted by the processor will be the travel division line; select the travel division line candidate based on the degree of reliability calculated by the processor, and recognize the travel division line using the selected travel division line candidate; and recognize solid objects including vehicles, set a suppression area based on the recognized solid objects, and reduce the degree of reliability of the travel division line candidate present within the suppression area, the suppression area including: a frontal-face suppression area that is set so as to cover a frontal face of another vehicle in a position in which the frontal face has been recognized; a side-face suppression area that is set so as to cover a side face that is formed by extending the frontal-face suppression area in a depth direction by a predetermined vehicle length; and a distant suppression area that is set so as to cover an area beyond the predetermined vehicle length from the frontal-face suppression area and wider in a lateral direction than the frontal-face suppression area.