Object detecting device
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1. An object detecting device comprising:
- image detecting portion that detects an object from image data for a predetermined area that has been captured;
calculating portion that calculates a horizontal width of the object detected by the image detecting portion;
estimating portion that estimates a length in an image depth direction of the object detected by the image detecting portion;
correcting portion that corrects the horizontal width of the object calculated by the calculating portion, based on the length in the image depth direction estimated by the estimating portion;
inclination obtaining portion that obtains an inclination of an object region occupied by the object in the image data of the object detected by the image detecting portion, wherein the estimating portion estimates the length in the image depth direction of the object based on the inclination of the object region obtained by the obtaining portion; and
determining portion that determines whether the inclination of the object region is greater than a predetermined value;
whereinthe inclination of the object region is an angle between a longitudinal direction of the object region in the image data and a horizontal direction of the image data; and
the correcting portion is inhibited from correcting the horizontal width of the object calculated by the calculating portion if it is determined by the determining portion that the inclination of the object region is equal to or less than the predetermined value.
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Abstract
An object detecting device includes a camera ECU that detects an object from image data for a predetermined area has been captured by a monocular camera, a fusion processing portion that calculates the pre-correction horizontal width of the detected object, a numerical value calculating portion that estimates the length in the image depth direction of the calculated pre-correction horizontal width, and a collision determining portion that corrects the pre-correction horizontal width calculated by the fusion processing portion, based on the estimated length in the image depth direction.
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1. An object detecting device comprising:
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image detecting portion that detects an object from image data for a predetermined area that has been captured; calculating portion that calculates a horizontal width of the object detected by the image detecting portion; estimating portion that estimates a length in an image depth direction of the object detected by the image detecting portion; correcting portion that corrects the horizontal width of the object calculated by the calculating portion, based on the length in the image depth direction estimated by the estimating portion; inclination obtaining portion that obtains an inclination of an object region occupied by the object in the image data of the object detected by the image detecting portion, wherein the estimating portion estimates the length in the image depth direction of the object based on the inclination of the object region obtained by the obtaining portion; and determining portion that determines whether the inclination of the object region is greater than a predetermined value;
whereinthe inclination of the object region is an angle between a longitudinal direction of the object region in the image data and a horizontal direction of the image data; and the correcting portion is inhibited from correcting the horizontal width of the object calculated by the calculating portion if it is determined by the determining portion that the inclination of the object region is equal to or less than the predetermined value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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