MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202644023016 A) filed by Honda Motor Co. , Ltd. on February 26, 2026, for Traffic Congestion Determination Apparatus, Traffic Congestion Determination 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 determine traffic congestion more simply. A traffic congestion determination apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the number of lanes of a road on which a vehicle exists; a recognition unit that recognizes one or a plurality of surrounding vehicles existing in the surroundings of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines traffic congestion of the road, wherein the determination unit counts the plurality of surrounding vehicles existing spaced apart in a lateral direction, with respect to the lateral direction, and determines traffic congestion of the road based on the number of the counted surrounding vehicles and the number of the lanes. [Figure 1]
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