Communications: electrical – External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm – Transmitter in another vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-13
2007-03-13
Pope, Daryl C (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm
Transmitter in another vehicle
C340S904000, C340S937000, C340S435000, C340S436000, C700S300000, C700S301000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11049757
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle environment monitoring device comprises an imaging section for taking image data of an environment of an automobile, the image including at least two types of colors; a setting section for setting a specific area of the image data obtained by the imaging section, wherein the specific area has a strip shape longer in, and parallel to, a horizontal direction of a frame image and includes at least two types of colors; an extraction section for taking in image data of the specific area in units of one or a plurality of frame images taken by the imaging section in time series and extracting moving vector information based on the image data of the specific area; and a detection section for detecting a second vehicle which is present in an environment of a first vehicle having the vehicle environment monitoring device mounted thereon, based on the moving vector information.
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Nagasawa Shunsuke
Sato Hidenori
Unno Noriyuki
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Murakami Corporation
Pope Daryl C
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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