Image processing apparatus and image pickup device

• US 20070003148A1
• Filed: 08/09/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Takenaga, Isao Furusawa, Jiro Takezaki, Shoji Muramatsu, Tatsuhiko Monji, Yoshiki Kobayashi, Yuji Otsuka
• Original Assignee: Hiroshi Takenaga, Isao Furusawa, Jiro Takezaki, Shoji Muramatsu, Tatsuhiko Monji, Yoshiki Kobayashi, Yuji Otsuka
• Inventors: Otsuka, Yuji, Muramatsu, Shoji, Takenaga, Hiroshi, Monji, Tatsuhiko, Furusawa, Isao, Takezaki, Jiro, Kobayashi, Yoshiki
• Application Number:
  US11/500,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20070003148A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/60 Memory management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80

Abstract

Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a processing amount reduction unit, the selected image data is transferred to a RAM in a single chop by a data transfer unit, and the processing of recognizing a white line is executed by a CPU on the basis of the image data stored in the RAM.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

image data storage means for storing therein image data transferred thereto;

arithmetic operation processing means for arithmetically processing the image data stored in said image data storage unit; and

data transfer means for receiving, as its input, image data and for transferring a plurality of image data, an amount of which is less than that of inputted image data, of the input image data to said image data storage unit.

2-16. -16. (canceled)