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| 20080319640 | Route Guidance System and Method - A routing guide system includes route calculating means for calculating the route of a vehicle to a destination, image providing means for reading from storage means scenery images on the route calculated by the route calculating means, and display means for displaying the scenery images on the calculated route generated by the image providing means. The routing guide system also includes route confirming means for confirming as a set route the route calculated by the route calculating means, according to an operation, during or after display of the scenery images on the calculated route by means of the display means. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090030604 | ROAD LANDSCAPE MAP PRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A road landscape map producing apparatus is loaded on a movable body, and produces a road landscape map. The road landscape map includes road landscape information showing a surrounding landscape in a road. The road landscape information includes road landscape classification items obtained by classifying the surrounding landscape into some items, e.g., “streetscape”, “forest” and “open road”. A photographing device such as a camera photographs surrounding images in accordance with movement of the movable body. A still picture is photographed as the surrounding image. The surrounding image is classified into the road landscape classification items by an image process. Based on a geographic position at which the surrounding image is photographed, the road landscape classification item is associated with the map information. Thereby, the road landscape map is produced. Since the produced road landscape map includes the road landscape information showing the road landscape at each point, by displaying the map, it becomes possible to easily know the landscape at each point on the map. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090136125 | IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE AND IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD - An image corresponding to image data obtained by imaging by a camera is divided into a plurality of image pieces and each of the image pieces is subjected to a color analysis process, a fractal dimension analysis process, and an artificial object amount recognition process. According to a combination of the results obtained by the three processes, a part of a landscape contained in each of the image pieces is classified and the entire characteristic of the landscape contained in the image is judged according to the classification result. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090231146 | SCENE MONOTONOUSNESS CALCULATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A scene monotonousness calculation device has an image acquisition means for acquiring an exterior appearance image and also has a monotonousness calculation means for calculating the monotonousness of a scene corresponding to the exterior appearance image. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090295921 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MEASURING PHOTOGRAPHABLE RANGE OF VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA - A vehicle-mounted pickup device measures an image pickup movable range of a camera mounted inside a vehicle based on a video signal obtained by picking up images with the camera, while changing (rotating) the image pickup direction of the camera in the yaw direction. The vehicle-mounted pickup device can increase a degree of freedom in selecting the instillation position of the camera inside the vehicle. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100033571 | TRAFFIC INFORMATION DETECTOR, TRAFFIC INFORMATION DETECTING METHOD, TRAFFIC INFORMATION DETECTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A traffic information detecting apparatus includes a camera; a driving unit that is equipped with the camera and defines a shooting direction of the camera; an image processing unit that executes predetermined processing with respect to an image of a traffic signal captured by the camera and detects a state of the traffic signal; and a control unit that drives the driving unit based on a detection result of the image processing unit. The image processing unit further recognizes a light type of the traffic signal from an image of a road along which a vehicle is traveling, the image of the road being captured by the camera; and according to the light type detected by the image processing unit, the control unit drives the driving unit to enable the shooting direction of the camera to be defined. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100085440 | SCENERY IMAGING APPARATUS, SCENERY IMAGING METHOD, SCENERY IMAGING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In a scenery imaging apparatus ( | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100094502 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS, DRIVE CONTROL METHOD, DRIVE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A drive control apparatus ( | 04-15-2010 |
