Device for detecting a road traveling lane
First Claim
1. A device for detecting a road traveling lane, from images on a road surface continuously picked up by image pickup means, comprising:
- edge point detection means for detecting a plurality of edge points in a contour on the image;
edge histogram producing means for producing a vertical edge histogram for horizontal elements of the plurality of edge points detected by said edge point detection means;
block marking line determination means for determining presence and absence of a block-like marking line on the basis of periodicity of distribution and a combination of distributions of plus edges and minus edges in the vertical edge histogram produced by said edge histogram producing means, and defining a region where said block-like marking line is present;
lane boundary edge detection means for detecting vertical edge points present outside of a center of said traveling lane, in the region where said block-like marking line defined by said block marking line determination means is present; and
lane boundary position defining means for defining a position of a curve fitted to the vertical edge points detected by said lane boundary edge detection means, as a position of a boundary of said traveling lane.
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Abstract
A device for detecting a road traveling lane, which is capable of stably defining a position of a boundary of a traveling lane. The device has edge point detection means (ED) for detecting a plurality of edge points in a contour on an image, edge histogram producing means (HD) for producing a vertical edge histogram for horizontal elements of the plurality of edge points, block marking line determination means (BD) for determining presence and absence of a block-like marking line on the basis of periodicity of distribution and a combination of distributions of plus edges and minus edges in the vertical edge histogram, and lane boundary edge detection means (MD) for detecting vertical edge points present outside (relative to the center of the traveling lane) of a region where the block-like marking line is present. And, according to lane boundary position defining means (LD), it is so constituted to define a position of a curve fitted to the vertical edge points, as the position of the boundary of the traveling lane.
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1. A device for detecting a road traveling lane, from images on a road surface continuously picked up by image pickup means, comprising:
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edge point detection means for detecting a plurality of edge points in a contour on the image;
edge histogram producing means for producing a vertical edge histogram for horizontal elements of the plurality of edge points detected by said edge point detection means;
block marking line determination means for determining presence and absence of a block-like marking line on the basis of periodicity of distribution and a combination of distributions of plus edges and minus edges in the vertical edge histogram produced by said edge histogram producing means, and defining a region where said block-like marking line is present;
lane boundary edge detection means for detecting vertical edge points present outside of a center of said traveling lane, in the region where said block-like marking line defined by said block marking line determination means is present; and
lane boundary position defining means for defining a position of a curve fitted to the vertical edge points detected by said lane boundary edge detection means, as a position of a boundary of said traveling lane. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A device for detecting a road traveling lane, from images on a road surface continuously picked up by image pickup means, comprising:
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edge point detection means for detecting a plurality of edge points from a contour on the image;
edge histogram producing means for producing a horizontal edge histogram for vertical elements of the plurality of edge points detected by said edge point detection means;
block marking line determination means for determining presence and absence of a block-like marking line on the basis of periodicity of distribution and a combination of distributions of plus edges and minus edges in the horizontal edge histogram produced by said edge histogram producing means, and defining a region where said block-like marking line is present;
lane boundary edge detection means for detecting vertical edge points present outside of a center of said traveling lane, in the region where said block-like marking line defined by said block marking line determination means is present; and
lane boundary position defining means for defining a position of a curve fitted to the vertical edge points detected by said lane boundary edge detection means, as a position of a boundary of said traveling lane. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A device for detecting a road traveling lane, from images continuously picked up on the road by image pickup means, comprising:
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edge point detection means for detecting a plurality of edge points in a contour on the image;
vertical edge histogram producing means for producing a vertical edge histogram for horizontal elements of the plurality of edge points detected by said edge point detection means;
block marking line determination means for determining presence and absence of a block-like marking line on the basis of periodicity of distribution and a combination of distributions of plus edges and minus edges in the vertical edge histogram produced by said vertical edge histogram producing means;
horizontal edge histogram producing means for producing a horizontal edge histogram for vertical elements of the plurality of edge points detected by said edge point detection means; and
lane boundary position defining means for determining a plurality of vertical edge points, whose vertical edge histogram varies periodically in response to traveling of said vehicle, and which were determined to be closest to a center of said traveling lane on the basis of the horizontal edge histogram produced by said horizontal edge histogram producing means, and defining a position of a curve fitted to the plurality of edge points present outside of the center of said traveling lane, as a position of a boundary of said traveling lane. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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