US 11,721,212 B2
Vehicle system for determining recommended lane
Hidetoshi Chikamori, Saitama (JP); Kazumasa Nakamura, Saitama (JP); Hitoshi Konishi, Saitama (JP); Takuji Harayama, Saitama (JP); Tomoaki Masakawa, Tokyo (JP); Naofumi Aso, Saitama (JP); Ryo Matsuzawa, Tokyo (JP); and Zhaoqi Wang, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/571,600.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-002585 (JP), filed on Jan. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0223036 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G08G 1/123 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/096716 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18009 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); G08G 1/123 (2013.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02); B60W 2552/10 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle system for determining a recommended lane for an own vehicle in a case where the own vehicle travels on a road having a plurality of lanes on one lateral side thereof, the vehicle system comprising:
a controller configured to communicate with a map server that stores map information including traffic information and restriction information on each lane, the traffic information including current traffic state information on each lane and/or a statistic of a past traffic state of each lane, the restriction information corresponding to an attendant circumstance of the own vehicle selected from a group consisting of a number of occupants, a registered number of the own vehicle, a using schedule of a specific lane, and a vehicle type; and
a vehicle position acquiring device configured to acquire own vehicle position information for determining a lane in which the own vehicle is traveling and transmit the own vehicle position information to the controller,
wherein the controller includes:
a vehicle position determining unit configured to determine the lane in which the own vehicle is traveling based on the own vehicle position information;
a storage unit configured to store the attendant circumstance of the own vehicle; and
a recommended lane determining unit configured to determine the recommended lane, and
the recommended lane determining unit is configured to
set a priority of each lane based on the map information,
determine a lane having a highest priority as the recommended lane, and
exclude a travel prohibited lane from a candidate for the recommended lane based on the restriction information and the attendant circumstance, the travel prohibited lane being a lane in which travel of the own vehicle is prohibited.