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Vehicle information providing apparatus

  • US 7,141,796 B2
  • Filed: 10/17/2002
  • Issued: 11/28/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle information providing apparatus that displays an image recorded by at least one infrared camera, the apparatus comprising:

  • an extracted zone setting device that sets a present zone of a physical object image, which corresponds to a physical object detected by multivalued processing of said image, as an extracted zone;

    a search zone setting device that sets a search zone for detecting changes in brightness in the vicinity of said extracted zone; and

    a physical object recognition device that searches for changes in brightness in said search zone, and provides a highlighted display of a portion of the search zone in which there is a change in brightness, along with said extracted zones, as the physical object image.

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