Image analysis – Applications – Vehicle or traffic control
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-28
2009-02-10
Tabatabai, Abolfazl (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Vehicle or traffic control
C340S435000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07489805
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device including a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale image of the image, an obstacle determination device that determines whether or not another body being an obstacle is present between the infrared imaging device and the binarized object, a height calculation device that calculates a height dimension of the binarized object based on the height dimension of the obstacle on the gray scale image when it is determined that an obstacle is present in a determination result of the obstacle determination device and an object type determination device that determines a type of the object based on the height dimension of the binarized object.
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Hashimoto Hideki
Nagaoka Nobuharu
Saka Masakazu
Blackman William D.
Carrier Joseph P.
Carrier Blackman & Associates P.C.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
Tabatabai Abolfazl
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