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VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING APPARATUS

  • US 20110234805A1
  • Filed: 10/08/2009
  • Published: 09/29/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An apparatus for monitoring a periphery of a vehicle using an image captured by an infrared camera mounted on the vehicle, comprising:

  • a temperature detector for detecting an outside temperature of the vehicle; and

    a control unit, the control unit configured to;

    calculate a temperature difference between the outside temperature and a surface temperature of an object estimated based on the outside temperature;

    determine a luminance value of the object in the captured image by adding a luminance difference corresponding to the temperature difference to a luminance value of a background in the captured image; and

    extract the object by binarizing the captured image from the infrared camera by using the luminance value of the object as a threshold value.

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