Image analysis – Applications – Vehicle or traffic control
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-22
2008-07-22
Werner, Brian P. (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Vehicle or traffic control
Reexamination Certificate
active
07403639
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, includes: a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale images of the image; a search region setting device that sets a search region including a bottom end of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device, on the gray scale image; a horizontal edge detection device that detects a horizontal edge in the search region; a horizontal edge width calculation device that calculates a width of the horizontal edge or a status quantity related to the width; and an object type determination device that determines a type of the object based on the width of the horizontal edge or the status quantity related to the width.
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Nagaoka Nobuharu
Tsuji Takayuki
Blackman Willilam D.
Carrier Joseph P.
Carrier Blackman & Associates P.C.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
Rice Elisa M
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