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Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

  • US 7,388,476 B2
  • Filed: 11/28/2005
  • Issued: 06/17/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, comprising:

  • a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale image of the image;

    a horizontal edge detection device that detects a horizontal edge in the gray scale image;

    a horizontal edge determination device that determines whether or not the horizontal edge detected by the horizontal edge detection device exists in a prescribed range from top end or bottom end of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; and

    an object type determination device that determines a type of object based on a determination result of the horizontal edge determination device.

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