Feature information collecting apparatus and feature information collecting method

摘要

A feature information collecting apparatus provides a vehicle position information acquiring device that acquires vehicle position information that represents a current position of a vehicle; an image information acquiring device that acquires image information for the vicinity of the vehicle; an image recognition device that carries out image recognition processing of target features that are included in the image information; a recognition result storing device that stores the recognition position information that is found based on the vehicle position information and that represents the recognition position of the target features by the image recognition device such that the target features can be distinguished; and an estimated position determining device that determines the estimated position of the target features based on a plurality of sets of the recognition position information, for the same target features, that has been stored in the recognition result storing device due to the same target features having been recognized by image recognition a plurality of times.