Title:
車両周辺監視装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4173902
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is provided herein which is capable of determining an object type, particularly capable of determining an animal other than a human being among objects. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus which monitors the surroundings of a vehicle by using an image captured by a camera (2R, 2L) mounted on the vehicle, including an object extraction process unit which extracts an image area of the object from the captured image (steps 1 to 6) and an object type determination process unit which determines the object type according to whether the image area of the object extracted by the object extraction process unit includes a first object area of an inverse triangular shape and a second object area located below the first object area and within a predetermined range from the first object area (steps 31 to 36).
Inventors:
Fuminori Taniguchi
Hiroyuki Koike
Masakazu Saka
Hiroyuki Koike
Masakazu Saka
Application Number:
JP2006140117A
Publication Date:
October 29, 2008
Filing Date:
May 19, 2006
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Honda motor industry stock company
International Classes:
G06T1/00; B60R1/00; B60R11/02; B60R21/00
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2004295798A | ||||
| JP2002312769A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tatsuhiko Sato
Takehiro Chiba
Takehiro Chiba