Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Patent
1997-10-21
1999-11-09
Chin, Gary
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
701 23, 701 28, 701300, 180169, 702150, G06F 1900, G01D 526
Patent
active
059831570
ABSTRACT:
A detecting apparatus which detects a quantity of various kinds of vehicle motion without using materials arranged on a road surface. The detecting apparatus is provided on a vehicle. A marking mechanism provides a mark on a road surface, the marking mechanism provided on the vehicle. An imaging device takes images of the road surface including the mark at a predetermined time interval. A quantity of vehicle motion is calculated by detecting a change in a position of the mark during the predetermined time interval based on a plurality of the images.
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Chin Gary
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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