Moving object periphery image correction apparatus
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1. A moving object periphery image correction apparatus comprising:
- an interface to an imaging device from which a plurality of periphery images of a moving object are acquired from said imaging device;
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, said memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in performance of a process including,extracting an edge from each of the acquired periphery images, and determining a curved reference line from each extracted edge;
calculating a priority for each of the acquired periphery images;
selecting at least one of the acquired periphery images with the highest priority as a reference image;
calculating a distortion parameter for distortion correction of the reference image such that the determined reference line is made linear;
correcting a distortion of one or more acquired periphery images acquired with the use of the calculated distortion parameter, and outputting each corrected periphery image as a periphery image to be displayed; and
acquiring topographical information of the periphery of the moving object,wherein the acquired topographical information is used by the processor to determine whether the periphery of the moving object is at an expressway, and to give a higher priority to each of the periphery images acquired from the imaging device when the periphery of the moving object is determined to be at an expressway thereby increasing the likelihood of selecting an acquired peripheral image with a limited number of potential edges as the reference image.
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Abstract
A reference line detection unit 12 extracts an edge from a distorted image taken by a fisheye camera to thereby determine a curved reference line. A distortion parameter calculation unit 13 calculates a distortion parameter such that the reference line is made linear. A distortion correction unit 14 corrects distortion of the distorted image by a distortion correction equation by using the distortion parameter.
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13 Claims
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1. A moving object periphery image correction apparatus comprising:
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an interface to an imaging device from which a plurality of periphery images of a moving object are acquired from said imaging device; a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, said memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in performance of a process including, extracting an edge from each of the acquired periphery images, and determining a curved reference line from each extracted edge; calculating a priority for each of the acquired periphery images; selecting at least one of the acquired periphery images with the highest priority as a reference image; calculating a distortion parameter for distortion correction of the reference image such that the determined reference line is made linear; correcting a distortion of one or more acquired periphery images acquired with the use of the calculated distortion parameter, and outputting each corrected periphery image as a periphery image to be displayed; and acquiring topographical information of the periphery of the moving object, wherein the acquired topographical information is used by the processor to determine whether the periphery of the moving object is at an expressway, and to give a higher priority to each of the periphery images acquired from the imaging device when the periphery of the moving object is determined to be at an expressway thereby increasing the likelihood of selecting an acquired peripheral image with a limited number of potential edges as the reference image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A moving object periphery image correction apparatus comprising:
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an interface to an imaging device from which a plurality of periphery images of a moving object are acquired from said imaging device; a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, said memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in performance of a process including, extracting an edge from each of the acquired periphery images, and determining a curved reference line from each extracted edge; calculating a priority for each of the acquired periphery images; selecting at least one of the acquired periphery images with the highest priority as a reference image; calculating a distortion parameter for distortion correction of the reference image such that the determined reference line is made linear; correcting a distortion of one or more acquired periphery images acquired with the use of the calculated distortion parameter, and outputting each corrected periphery image as a periphery image to be displayed; and acquiring topographical information of the periphery of the moving object, wherein the acquired topographical information is used by the processor to determine whether the periphery of the moving object is at an expressway, and to give a higher priority to each of the periphery images acquired from the imaging device when the periphery of the moving object is determined to be at an expressway thereby increasing the likelihood of selecting an acquired peripheral image with a limited number of potential edges as the reference image, and wherein the distortion is corrected for the one or more acquired periphery images using the following equations;
Xu=Xd+k×
(Xd2+Yd2) and
Yu=Yd+k×
(Xd2+Yd2),where (Xu, Yu) is a coordinate after a distortion correction, (Xd, Yd) is a coordinate before the distortion correction, and k is the distortion parameter.
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