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Title:
DEVICE FOR DETECTING WARM BODY
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3716623
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a warm body detecting device by which a pedestrian is correctly detected without being affected by a disturbance cause.
SOLUTION: A warm body image and a visible image in the travelling direction of a vehicle are picked-up by an infrared-ray camera 1 and a visible camera 3 and a distance and a direction to another vehicle in the travelling direction of the vehicle are detected by a vehicle detecting part 17. Then, an image processing unit 5 extracts the presence area of another vehicle based on the distance and direction to another vehicle. Then, the presence areas of the visible image and another vehicle are removed from the warm body image and the presence of the pedestrian is detected based on the warm body image obtained as the removal processing result.


Inventors:
Akira Asaoka
Application Number:
JP19466998A
Publication Date:
November 16, 2005
Filing Date:
July 09, 1998
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Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd
International Classes:
G01V8/10; G08B21/00; G08B21/22; G08G1/16; (IPC1-7): G08G1/16; G01V8/10; G08B21/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP61071787A
JP10100820A
JP9326096A
JP9128548A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hidekazu Miyoshi
Iwa Saki Kokuni
Akira Kurihara
Kawamata Sumio
Masakazu Ito
Shunichi Takahashi
Toshio Takamatsu