Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

Details Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

2005-06-10

2008-10-14

LaRose, Colin (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

Vehicle or traffic control

C382S291000, C348S148000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07436982

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, includes: an infrared imaging device that captures an image; a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object by binarizing the image; an extraction region setting device that sets, as an extraction region, a region adjacent to one of an upper end and a lower end of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; a search region setting device that sets a search region around the extraction region; a similar object extraction device that, when an object having a shape similar to that of the object in the extraction region is present in the search region, extracts the object in the search region as a similar object; and an identical object determination device that determines whether or not the object in the extraction region and the similar object in the search region are identical.

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