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Vehicle Surroundings Monitoring Device

  • US 20150172582A1
  • Filed: 06/28/2013
  • Published: 06/18/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring device comprising:

  • a captured image acquisition unit that acquires an image of surroundings of a vehicle by an image capturing unit mounted on the vehicle;

    an attachment detection unit that devices a state in which foreign matter adheres to a lens of the image capturing unit;

    a lens state decision unit that decides that the lens is in a lens state in which performance of image recognition is reduced in case that the attachment detection unit devices that the foreign matter adheres to the lens;

    a lens state recording unit that records the lens state in a recording unit upon termination of a system; and

    a lens state red-out unit that reads out the lens state recorded in the recording unit upon start of the system; and

    a lens washing unit that outputs a start signal that commands start of a washing unit based upon a result of decision by the lens state decision unit.

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