DEVICE FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC G01C21/30 G08G1/969 

FIELD: transportation.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to devices for determining the position of a vehicle. Said device for determining the position of a vehicle includes data storage device 5 that stores map information 51 containing the positions of ground objects located near roads, vehicle position estimating module 61 that estimates the current position of vehicle P in cartographic information 51, camera 1 that captures the image of the zone around vehicle P, zone identification module 64 that identifies Q zone in which a terrestrial object is located that is to serve as a recognition target, wherein Q zone is identified in map information 51 based on the predetermined state, ground object recognition module 65 that recognizes a land object in Q zone in the image, relative position calculation module 66 that calculates in cartographic information 51 the relative position of vehicle P relative to the position of the recognized ground object, and position correction module 67 that corrects the current position of vehicle P based on the relative position calculated by relative position calculation module 66.

EFFECT: accurate correction of the current position of the vehicle in various traffic environments.

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