Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100156616 | VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING APPARATUS - A vehicle environment monitoring apparatus is equipped with a monitored object detecting unit | 06-24-2010 |
20110032358 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING APPARATUS - Provided is an apparatus capable of, even when an object is moving, measuring the position of the object at a high accuracy. According to a vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110096956 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE - A vehicle periphery monitoring device is operable to report a high contact possibility between a vehicle and an object at an appropriate time or frequency according to the type of the object. When the object is determined to be a human being and the position of the object in real space is contained in a first contact determination area, a high contact possibility between the vehicle and the object is reported. On the other hand, when the object is determined to be a quadruped animal and the real spatial position of the object is contained in a second contact determination area, the corresponding report is made. The second contact determination area has an overlapped area that overlaps with the first contact determination area, and an overflowed area that has at least a part thereof overflowing from the first contact determination area. | 04-28-2011 |
20110109739 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE - A vehicle periphery monitoring device is operable to recognize with high accuracy whether or not an object is a designated quadruped animal. According to the vehicle periphery monitoring device, for determining whether or not a first object region and a second object region correspond to the designated quadruped animal according to whether or not the aspect ratio of the first object region is equal to or greater 1, a plurality of the second object regions are extracted, and it is determined whether the ratio of the vertical dimension of the second object region to the vertical dimension of the first object region lies within the range of the ratio of the leg vertical dimension to the torso vertical dimension of a common designated quadruped animal. | 05-12-2011 |
20110170748 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE - A vehicle periphery monitoring device includes: a parallax calculating unit which extracts a first image section that contains a target object in real space from a first image imaged by a first imaging unit at a predetermined time and extracts a second image section correlated to the first image section from a second image imaged by a second imaging unit at the predetermined time, and then calculates the parallax between the first image section and the second image section; a parallax gradient calculating unit for calculating a parallax gradient based on a time series calculation of the parallax of the identical target object in real space by the parallax calculating unit; and a first distance calculating unit for calculating the distance from the vehicle to the target object on the basis of the parallax gradient and the velocity of the vehicle. | 07-14-2011 |
20110199197 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE AREA AROUND A VEHICLE | 08-18-2011 |
20110234804 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING APPARATUS - Bicycles present before a vehicle are identified. A picked-up image having intensity values that are in accordance with the temperatures of objects is acquired to extract image regions having intensity values representative of higher temperatures than a background. An object, which includes a pair of first object portions (legs) and a second object portion (a tire), would be identified as a bicycle if the pair of first object portions, which have greater dimensions in length in the vertical direction than in width in the horizontal direction and the distance between which is less than a predetermined value in the horizontal direction, are detected from the extracted image regions and further if the second object portion, which has a different intensity value from any one of the first object portions and also has a length greater than a predetermined value in the vertical direction, is existent between the pair of first object portions. | 09-29-2011 |
20120041617 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE - Provided is a vehicle periphery monitoring device having: a first distance calculating unit ( | 02-16-2012 |
20120044352 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE - Provided is a vehicle periphery monitoring device capable of making a driver reliably recognize the shape of an object to which attention should be paid. According to an image processing unit ( | 02-23-2012 |
20120300076 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE - A vehicle periphery monitoring device is provided with a symmetrical image portion extraction unit ( | 11-29-2012 |
20120314074 | SURROUNDING AREA MONITORING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A surrounding area monitoring apparatus, which is built into a vehicle, images the area surrounding the vehicle and detects physical objects in the area surrounding the vehicle based on the image taken. The apparatus determines whether the detected physical object is a pedestrian or an animal, and a warning is given to the driver of the vehicle if the determined physical object is present within a specified area from the vehicle. If it is determined that the detected physical object is an animal and that the animal is present within the specified area, the warning in continued for a specified period even after the animal has left the specified area. Since animals have habits of behaving in a herd, risk of lurking animals can be brought to the driver's attention by the continuation of the warning. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320212 | SURROUNDING AREA MONITORING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A surrounding area of a vehicle is imaged, and target objects in the area are detected based on captured images. A driver is warned of the presence of the detected target objects by displaying a warning indication on the displayed image. If a total number of simultaneously detected target objects is equal to or less than a specified number, the warning indication of a first display mode is applied in which each target object is emphasized individually. If the total number is more than the specified number, the warning indication of a second warning display mode is applied in which one emphasized indication predefined is displayed for the whole displayed image without displaying the warning indication of the first display mode. The warning image becomes easier to understand for a driver, compared to an image where all detected objects are always emphasized individually regardless of the total number of them. | 12-20-2012 |
20130004021 | VEHICLE PERIMETER MONITORING DEVICE - An imaging means mounted on a vehicle performs imaging resulting in grayscale images having brightness values corresponding to object temperature, and objects around the vehicle are detected from said images. On the basis of said grayscale images, display images to be displayed on a display device mounted on the vehicle are generated and displayed on the display device. The display images are generated by lowering the brightness of areas not corresponding to the objects detected in the grayscale images. The display device is positioned in the vehicle width direction at no more than a prescribed distance away from an imaginary line passing through the center of rotation of the vehicle steering wheel and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. Accordingly, because display images are generated in which only the objects are spotlighted, the driver can quickly comprehend the objects present when using a display device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130044218 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE - The device for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle is provided with means for detecting objects in the surroundings of the vehicle based on image acquired by an imaging device, display devices for displaying on display screens display images that are produced based on the captured image, and alerting means for alerting a driver of the existence of an object through the display devices when an object is detected. The display devices are placed at a plurality of locations visible from the driver. The alerting means reduces volume of information to be displayed on the display screen of the display device that requires large movement of line of sight of the drive for the driver to recognize the display screen from the reference line of sight that looks straight ahead. | 02-21-2013 |
20130070098 | APPARATUS FOR MONITORING SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE - The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is provided with an imaging device and a device that transforms captured image to digital image. A first edge extraction mask is applied to detect multiple horizontal edges. The apparatus further includes a detector that detects upper end of the head of the object by detecting a horizontal edge having a highest edge intensity out of the multiple horizontal edges. A second edge extraction mask is used to detect the lower end of the head of the physical object by detecting multiple vertical edges and matching the positional variation of the multiple vertical edges with predetermined patterns. | 03-21-2013 |
20130229525 | A DEVICE FOR MONITORING SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE - A device for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle mounted in a vehicle, captures an image of surroundings of the vehicle, extracts from the captured image an image area for a predetermined part of a desired type of object, and sets a predetermined area below the extracted image area. The device extracts candidates for the desired type of object present outside the vehicle based on the predetermined area and determines, for each of the extracted object candidates, whether the object candidate is the desired type of object. When no pattern different from the background is captured in the predetermined area, or when a pattern different from the background is captured only in one of a first and a second areas, then the object in the image area is excluded from the candidates for the desired type of object. Thus, a pedestrian, for example, can be distinguished from an artificial structure. | 09-05-2013 |
20130243261 | VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS MONITORING DEVICE - When it is determined that a type of a physical body in real space corresponding to an image portion is a crossing pedestrian, a distance calculating unit | 09-19-2013 |
20140153777 | LIVING BODY RECOGNIZING DEVICE - A living body recognizing device is equipped with a captured image acquiring unit which acquires captured images from infrared cameras having a characteristics that a luminance of an image portion of a target object becomes higher as a temperature of the target object becomes higher than a background, and vice versa, according to a temperature difference between the background and the target object, a living body image extracting unit which executes a first living body image extracting processing of extracting the image portion of the target object assumed as a living body, from a region in the captured image where the luminance is equal to or lower than a first threshold value, and a living body recognizing unit which recognizes an existence of the living body, based on the image portion of the target object extracted by the living body image extracting unit. | 06-05-2014 |
20140219510 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - A vehicle ( | 08-07-2014 |