On-vehicle camera device
First Claim
1. An on-vehicle camera system that decreases an amount of time required to detect an error in stereoscopic imaging, the system comprising:
- a left camera having a first priority;
a right camera having a second priority;
a first processor that performs diagnosis processing; and
a second processor communicatively coupled to the left camera, the right camera and the first processor, wherein the second processor;
receives a left image from the left camera,receives a right image from the right camera, wherein the left image and the right image each include an effective image region, an ineffective image region, and a diagnostic data region,determines a processing load of the second processor,on a condition that the processing load of the second processor exceeds a threshold, causes the first processor to perform the diagnosis processing on either the left image or the right image based on the first priority and the second priority,on a condition that the processing load of the second processor does not exceed the threshold, causes the first processor to perform the diagnosis processing on both the left image and the right image, andperforms image recognition processing based on the effective image region of the left image and the right image;
wherein the diagnosis processing is performed during an image acquisition period and detecting the error in the stereoscopic imaging by using the diagnosis data region that includes fixation diagnosis data that indicates whether a data line signal of a respective left or right camera is in a fixed state in the ineffective image region, wherein the image acquisition period is a period in which image data of an entire imaging region of a respective left image or right image is acquired.
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Abstract
Provided is an on-vehicle camera device that swiftly and accurately detects, in every frame, data line signals of respective bits from imaging elements. This on-vehicle camera device includes a failure-diagnosis processing unit that diagnoses whether the data line signals of imaging element units, are in a fixed state. Furthermore, the imaging element units each include an entire imaging region that is divided into an effective image region and an ineffective image region. Also provided is a diagnosis data region that includes fixation diagnosis data for diagnosing whether the data line signals of the imaging element units in the ineffective image regions are in a fixed state. In an image acquisition period in which image data of the entire imaging region is acquired, and/or an image-calculation processing period, the failure-diagnosis processing unit uses the fixation diagnosis data of the diagnosis data region to perform failure-diagnosis processing.
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6 Claims
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1. An on-vehicle camera system that decreases an amount of time required to detect an error in stereoscopic imaging, the system comprising:
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a left camera having a first priority; a right camera having a second priority; a first processor that performs diagnosis processing; and a second processor communicatively coupled to the left camera, the right camera and the first processor, wherein the second processor; receives a left image from the left camera, receives a right image from the right camera, wherein the left image and the right image each include an effective image region, an ineffective image region, and a diagnostic data region, determines a processing load of the second processor, on a condition that the processing load of the second processor exceeds a threshold, causes the first processor to perform the diagnosis processing on either the left image or the right image based on the first priority and the second priority, on a condition that the processing load of the second processor does not exceed the threshold, causes the first processor to perform the diagnosis processing on both the left image and the right image, and performs image recognition processing based on the effective image region of the left image and the right image; wherein the diagnosis processing is performed during an image acquisition period and detecting the error in the stereoscopic imaging by using the diagnosis data region that includes fixation diagnosis data that indicates whether a data line signal of a respective left or right camera is in a fixed state in the ineffective image region, wherein the image acquisition period is a period in which image data of an entire imaging region of a respective left image or right image is acquired. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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