Method and an apparatus for monitoring the environment around a

Details Method and an apparatus for monitoring the environment around a Method and an apparatus for monitoring the environment around a

1994-09-28

1997-03-18

Swarthout, Brent A.

Communications: electrical

External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm

Transmitter in another vehicle

180169, 340435, 348148, 348170, 369461, G08G 116

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056126867

ABSTRACT:
Safety of the distance between vehicles is judged by monitoring whether or not an object other than a front road surface, namely, a preceding vehicle, exists in a predetermined area of the front road surface which is recognized by a picture processing unit used as a sensor for recognizing traffic states of the front road, without recognizing an image of a preceding vehicle having a complicated shape and a plurality of colors of the preceding vehicle by means of picture processing.

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