PRECEDING VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, PRECEDING VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

原文（中国語）

A preceding vehicle identification apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires front information including information about a region of a road included in a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a scene in front of a target vehicle and information about one or more vehicles on the road, identifies a reference point of the target vehicle in the captured image using the front information, identifies a relative distance and a relative direction with respect to the reference point for each vehicle indicated in the front information, and identifies a preceding vehicle for the target vehicle based on the relative distance and the relative direction identified for each vehicle. The preceding vehicle is a vehicle closest to the target vehicle among vehicles traveling on a lane same as a lane of the target vehicle.