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Stereo vehicle-exterior monitoring apparatus

  • US 20060018513A1
  • Filed: 06/09/2005
  • Published: 01/26/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A stereo vehicle-exterior monitoring apparatus comprising:

  • a floodlight lamp for lighting up the surrounding of a vehicle thereof;

    a plurality of infrared auxiliary lights for lighting up a more distant place by infrared light than that is lighted up by the floodlight lamp and for lighting up a closer place and wider angle of lighting by infrared light than that is lighted up by the floodlight lamp so as to obtain a wider monitored area than that with the lighting by the floodlight lamp only;

    stereo cameras including a pair of infrared cameras, the stereo cameras shooting at least a lighted range of the infrared auxiliary lights;

    a stereo image processing portion for calculating distance data by stereo-matching based on a pair of images shot by the stereo cameras; and

    a monitoring portion for monitoring a subject present in the surrounding of the vehicle based on the distance data output from the stereo image processing portion.

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