MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202644022928 A) filed by Honda Motor Co. , Ltd. on February 26, 2026, for Road Shape Estimation Apparatus, Road Shape Estimation Method, And Storage Medium.
Inventors include Nagasawa Kako; and Iguro Takumi.
The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.
Abstract: To estimate a shape of a road with high accuracy. A road shape estimation apparatus comprises: a recognition unit that recognizes one or a plurality of surrounding vehicles existing around a vehicle; and an estimation unit that estimates a shape of a first road edge that is the road edge closer to the parked vehicle among two road edges of a road, based on a parked vehicle that is the surrounding vehicle parked at a position biased to either one of left and right from a center of the road where the vehicle exists, among the plurality of surrounding vehicles, wherein the estimation unit estimates the shape of the first road edge based on a difference in lateral positions of the plurality of parked vehicles, a parking direction of each of the plurality of parked vehicles, and a shape of a second road edge that is the road edge farther from the parked vehicle. figure. 1
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