Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

Details Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

2011-06-28

2011-06-28

Pham, Thierry L (Department: 2625)

Television

Special applications

Observation of or from a specific location

C348S208140, C348S208150

Reexamination Certificate

active

07969466

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; a search region setting device that sets a search region at the lower part of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; a vertical edge detection device that detects a vertical edge in the search region set by the search region setting device; and an object type determination device that determines a type of object based on a detection result of the vertical edge detection device.

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