70 results about "Curve approximation" patented technology

In a curve approach control apparatus that uses road information from the navigation device to perform an alarm control or a deceleration control on a curve in front, when it is decided that the driver is going to travel straight as he or she passes through the curve, the alarm control or the deceleration control is inhibited.

A fixed data memory stores data of a normal lane width between lane lines and a narrow lane width between inner guide lines of double white lines. A lane-line candidate setting section detects lane-line detection points on both sides of a driving lane using a captured image, and sets lane-line candidate points on the opposite lane lines at spaces of the widths and therebetween, using the detection points as starting points. A curve approximation processing section sets virtual lines on both sides of the driving lane from a curve approximation equation obtained using the detection and candidate points. A lane-line position setting section obtains dispersions of the candidate points to the left and right virtual lines, and estimates the type of at least one of the left and right virtual lines.

A coordinate detecting device includes a detecting unit configured to detect the capacitance of each of a plurality of electrodes arranged in a predetermined direction and an arithmetic processing unit configured to calculate the coordinates of a detection target using different calculation methods according to the state of a variation in the capacitance of the plurality of electrodes. The arithmetic processing unit calculates the coordinates of the detection target, using one of a centroid calculation method of calculating the coordinates of the centroid and a curve approximation method of calculating a peak of a curve according to a comparison value between a capacitance variation of a peak electrode and a capacitance variation of an electrode which is not adjacent to the peak electrode.

The present invention provides a curve-drawing device in which the need to perform further approximation on a curve approximation result can be decided by a simpler technique than in the past. A curve-drawing device (1) is intended for a straight-line approximation of a curved contour line defined by a line width and a center line, and comprises: a path division unit (10) for calculating a plurality of division points on the center line which divide the center line; a contour point calculation unit (12) for calculating two separation points located at equal distances from the division points along a normal to the center line through the division points; a decision unit (13) for calculating the respective distances between two separation points located on the same side relative to a straight line passing through the two division points out of four separation points calculated for two neighboring division points, and determining whether a ratio for a case based on the shorter of the two distances is greater than a predetermined value; and a curve formation unit (16) for approximating the longer of partial contour lines, which are parts sandwiched between the normals that pass through the two division points on the contour line, by more segments than the shorter of the partial contour lines when the ratio has been determined to be greater than the predetermined value.