Vehicle-use surroundings monitoring system
First Claim
1. A vehicle-use surroundings monitoring system comprising:
- an image-taking means installed on a subject vehicle to take an image of surroundings of the subject vehicle to obtain a taken-image;
an approaching vehicle detecting means to detect, by image-processing the taken-image, an approaching vehicle approaching the subject vehicle from an adjacent lane area;
a danger judging means to judge dangerousness about the approaching vehicle detected;
an existence judging means to judge an existence of an abnormally approaching following vehicle traveling on an subject lane ahead of or behind the subject vehicle and obstructing to image-take the adjacent lane area by the image-taking means; and
an alarm generating means to give out an alarm when the existence judging means judges that the abnormally approaching following vehicle exists.
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Abstract
A vehicle-use surroundings monitoring system is provided, wherein a driver is prevented from driving without acknowledging that the detection of an approaching vehicle traveling in the adjacent lane area cannot be carried out because the driver is informed of the existence of an abnormally approaching following vehicle obstructing to image-take the adjacent lanes. An existence judging means (3a-3) judges the existence of the abnormally approaching following vehicle traveling on the subject lane and obstructing to image-take the adjacent lanes by an image-taking means. When the existence judging means (3a-3) judges that the abnormally approaching following vehicle exists, an alarm generating means (5) issues an alarm.
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1. A vehicle-use surroundings monitoring system comprising:
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an image-taking means installed on a subject vehicle to take an image of surroundings of the subject vehicle to obtain a taken-image;
an approaching vehicle detecting means to detect, by image-processing the taken-image, an approaching vehicle approaching the subject vehicle from an adjacent lane area;
a danger judging means to judge dangerousness about the approaching vehicle detected;
an existence judging means to judge an existence of an abnormally approaching following vehicle traveling on an subject lane ahead of or behind the subject vehicle and obstructing to image-take the adjacent lane area by the image-taking means; and
an alarm generating means to give out an alarm when the existence judging means judges that the abnormally approaching following vehicle exists. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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