Vehicular image processing apparatus and related method
First Claim
1. A vehicular image-processing apparatus, comprising:
- an imaging device picking up an image of a surrounding of a vehicle;
a dividing unit dividing an area of the image picked up with the imaging device into a first image area to be outputted at a low frame rate and a second image area to be outputted at a higher frame rate than the low frame rate;
an output unit synthesizing image information of the first image area and image information of the second image area; and
a processing device detecting an object to be detected of the surrounding of the vehicle from the image synthesized with the output unit.
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Abstract
A vehicular image processing apparatus and related method are disclosed as having a high speed camera 2 that picks up an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, a low speed image extracting unit 6 extracting an image calculated with a low speed area calculating unit 4, a high speed image extracting unit 5 extracting other image than that calculated with the low speed area calculating unit 4, and an image outputting unit 9 synthesizing image information extracted with the high image extracting unit 5 and image information related to the image of the low speed area to provide an output which is applied to an image recognition device 11 to detect an obstacle around the vehicle or a road shape. A frame rate adjusting unit 8 enables the output image of the low speed image extracting unit 6 to be applied to the image outputting unit 9.
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9 Claims
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1. A vehicular image-processing apparatus, comprising:
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an imaging device picking up an image of a surrounding of a vehicle; a dividing unit dividing an area of the image picked up with the imaging device into a first image area to be outputted at a low frame rate and a second image area to be outputted at a higher frame rate than the low frame rate; an output unit synthesizing image information of the first image area and image information of the second image area; and a processing device detecting an object to be detected of the surrounding of the vehicle from the image synthesized with the output unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of processing an image for a vehicle, comprising:
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picking up an image of a surrounding of a vehicle; dividing an area of the picked-up image into a first image area to be outputted at a low frame rate and a second image area to be outputted at a higher frame rate than the low frame rate; synthesizing image information of the first image area and image information of the second image area; and detecting an object to be detected of the surrounding of the vehicle from the synthesized image.
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9. A vehicular image processing apparatus, comprising:
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image means for picking up an image a surrounding of a vehicle; dividing means for dividing an area of the image picked up with the image pickup means into a first image area to be outputted at a low frame rate and a second image area to be outputted at a higher frame rate than the low frame rate; output means for synthesizing image information of the first image area and image information of the second image area; and processing means for detecting an object to be detected of the surrounding of the vehicle from the image synthesized with the output means.
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