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- Patent Title: Flood detection device, flood detection system, flood detection program storage medium, and flood detection method
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Application No.: US17018896Application Date: 2020-09-11
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Publication No.: US11520081B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: Naoki Ishihara , Hideki Kawai , Takayuki Yamabe , Yuichiro Nishi , Hiroyuki Yano
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2019-167664 20190913
- Main IPC: G01W1/14
- IPC: G01W1/14 ; G01W1/10

Abstract:
A flood detection device includes a detection result acquisition section, a weather information acquisition section and an identification section. The detection result acquisition section acquires a detection result that, on the basis of a plurality of kinds of running state data relating to running of a vehicle, detects flooding of a road on which the vehicle is running. The weather information acquisition section acquires weather information including at least one of rainfall information representing a measured rainfall amount in a region in which the vehicle is running or rainfall estimation information representing an estimated rainfall amount. The identification section uses the respective acquisition results of the detection result acquisition section and the weather information acquisition section to identify flooding of the road.
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