Apparatus and Method For Detecting Objects
First Claim
1. An apparatus for detecting the position of an object in one or more images captured by an image pickup device mounted on a vehicle, comprising:
- (a) a memory on which is stored a plurality of images captured by the image pickup device, including a first image of an object taken at a first time when the vehicle is balanced and a second image of the object captured at a second time; and
(b) a controller operatively coupled to the memory and adapted to determine whether the second image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced, and to determine the position of the object in the second image based on the position of the object in the first image if the second image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced.
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Abstract
An apparatus for detecting an object is provided which detects the pitching of a vehicle, and detects the presence of an object the front of the vehicle itself with the pitching being taken into consideration. The apparatus includes a microcomputer that performs image processing for the image of the object to compute the velocity and acceleration of the object present in the picked-up image, and based on the computed acceleration of the object, to determine whether the image was captured when the vehicle itself was balanced. If the image is judged to be an image captured when the vehicle itself was not balanced, then the position of the object present in the picked-up image is computed based on another picked-up image that was captured when the vehicle itself was balanced.
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus for detecting the position of an object in one or more images captured by an image pickup device mounted on a vehicle, comprising:
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(a) a memory on which is stored a plurality of images captured by the image pickup device, including a first image of an object taken at a first time when the vehicle is balanced and a second image of the object captured at a second time; and (b) a controller operatively coupled to the memory and adapted to determine whether the second image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced, and to determine the position of the object in the second image based on the position of the object in the first image if the second image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A vehicle, comprising:
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(a) an image pickup device mounted on the vehicle to capture a plurality of images of at least one object; (b) a memory on which is stored the plurality of images captured by the image pickup device, including a first image of an object taken at a first time when the vehicle is balanced and a second image of the object captured at a second time; (c) a controller operatively coupled to the memory and adapted to determine whether the second image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced, and to determine the position of the object in the second image based on the position of the object in the first image if the second image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An apparatus for detecting the position of an object in one or more images captured by an image pickup in a vehicle, comprising:
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image judgment means for determining whether a first image of an object captured by an image pickup was captured when the vehicle was balanced; and object position computing means for determining the position of an object in the first image if the first image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced, which determination is based on a second image of the same object that was captured when the vehicle was balanced.
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14. A method for detecting the position of an object in an image captured by an image pickup in a vehicle, comprising:
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determining whether a first image of an object captured by an image pickup was captured when the vehicle was balanced; and determining the position of the object in the first image if the first image was captured when the vehicle was not balanced, which determination is based on a second image of the same object that was captured at which the vehicle was balanced. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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