Apparatus and method for determining available driving space

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9529088
APP PUB NO 20160131762A1
SERIAL NO

14597879

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Provided is an apparatus for determining an available driving space, including a laser distance sensor installed in a vehicle and configured to sense a region in front of the vehicle by a predetermined distance to generate distance information, a signal processing unit configured to generate plane distance information by using the distance information generated by the laser distance sensor, a curb searching unit configured to determine correlation and similarity between the generated plane distance information and previous plane distance information to search for a curb, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the region in front of the vehicle by the predetermined distance is an available driving space depending on whether a route of a curb searched by the curb searching unit is included in a driving region.

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HYUNDAI MOBIS CO LTD203 TEHERAN-RO GANGNAM-GU SEOUL 06141
THE INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IAC)99 DAEHAK-RO YUSEONG-GU DAEJEON 34134 34134

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Jung, Seul Daejeon, KR 1 3
Kim, Jeong Ku Yongin-si, KR 18 76
Ko, Yun Ho Daejeon, KR 1 3

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