Vehicle information providing apparatus
First Claim
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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Abstract
A vehicle information providing apparatus determines and displays the range of presence of a person or other object based on the characteristics of images recorded by infrared cameras. An image processing unit carries out brightness change search processing in the infrared camera image zone represented by a gray scale using a search area wherein the size of a first detected area detected by binarization and correlation operation serves as the reference. In addition, the parallax between the first detected area and the searched area having a change in brightness is compared, a search area having a parallax that differs from that of the first searched area is eliminated, and a search area having a parallax identical to that of the first searched area is provided a highlighted display as an object identical to that of the first detected area.
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1. A vehicle information providing apparatus that displays an image recorded by at least one infrared camera, the apparatus comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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