Vehicle and Lane Mark Detection Device
First Claim
1. A vehicle comprising:
- an imaging means;
an image acquisition means which acquires an image of a road via the imaging means;
an edge extraction means which extracts edge points by performing edge extraction for the image acquired by the image acquisition means;
a line search means which searches the edge points extracted by the edge extraction means for line components each of which is point sequence data of a plurality of linearly located edge points;
an evaluation value calculation means which calculates an evaluation value indicating the degree that each line component approximates a linear lane mark on the road for the line components searched for by the line search means;
a lane mark candidate selection means which selects line components each having an evaluation value or a value obtained by filtering the time series of the evaluation value greater than a predetermined threshold value as candidates for a line component corresponding to the lane mark from the line components searched for by the line search means; and
a lane mark detection means which detects the lane mark by determining the line component corresponding to the lane mark from the candidates for the line component selected by the lane mark candidate selection means.
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: an image acquisition means (4) which acquires a road image via an imaging means (3); an edge extraction means (5) which extracts edge points from the acquired image; a line search means (6) which searches the extracted edge points for line components; an evaluation value calculation means (7) which calculates an evaluation value indicating the degree that each line component approximates a linear lane mark on the road for the line components searched for; a lane mark candidate selection means (8) which selects line components each having an evaluation value greater than a predetermined threshold value as candidates for a line component corresponding to the lane mark from the line components searched for; and a lane mark detection means (9) which detects the lane mark by determining the line component corresponding to the lane mark from the selected candidates for the line component. This allows the detection accuracy to be increased by preventing an object other than a lane mark on the road from being incorrectly detected as a linear lane mark such as a white line when detecting a linear lane mark such as a white line from the road image.
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16 Claims
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1. A vehicle comprising:
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an imaging means; an image acquisition means which acquires an image of a road via the imaging means; an edge extraction means which extracts edge points by performing edge extraction for the image acquired by the image acquisition means; a line search means which searches the edge points extracted by the edge extraction means for line components each of which is point sequence data of a plurality of linearly located edge points; an evaluation value calculation means which calculates an evaluation value indicating the degree that each line component approximates a linear lane mark on the road for the line components searched for by the line search means; a lane mark candidate selection means which selects line components each having an evaluation value or a value obtained by filtering the time series of the evaluation value greater than a predetermined threshold value as candidates for a line component corresponding to the lane mark from the line components searched for by the line search means; and a lane mark detection means which detects the lane mark by determining the line component corresponding to the lane mark from the candidates for the line component selected by the lane mark candidate selection means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A lane mark detection device comprising:
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an image acquisition means which acquires an image of a road via an imaging means mounted on a vehicle; an edge extraction means which extracts edge points by performing edge extraction for the image acquired by the image acquisition means; a line search means which searches the edge points extracted by the edge extraction means for line components each of which is point sequence data of a plurality of linearly located edge points; an evaluation value calculation means which calculates an evaluation value indicating the degree that each line component approximates a linear lane mark on the road for the line components searched for by the line search means; a lane mark candidate selection means which selects line components each having an evaluation value or a value obtained by filtering the time series of the evaluation value greater than a predetermined threshold value as candidates for a line component corresponding to the lane mark from the line components searched for by the line search means; and a lane mark detection means which detects the lane mark by determining the line component corresponding to the lane mark from the candidates for the line component selected by the lane mark candidate selection means. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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