Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

Details Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

2008-05-28

2010-11-23

Crosland, Donnie L (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Land vehicle alarms or indicators

Of relative distance from an obstacle

C340S903000, C340S425500, C348S148000, C382S104000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07839272

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus for taking an image of the surroundings of a vehicle, a preceding-vehicle detecting apparatus for detecting a preceding vehicle from the taken image, a monitored-region setting means for setting predetermined monitored regions around the preceding vehicle on the image, a predicting apparatus for predicting a brightness of an environment the preceding vehicle is going to enter, on the basis of brightnesses of pixels in the monitored regions, and an adjusting apparatus for adjusting at least one of an exposure amount of the image pickup apparatus and the brightnesses of the pixels output from the image pickup apparatus beforehand in accordance with the brightness of the environment predicted by the predicting apparatus.

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