Vehicle detection apparatus
First Claim
1. A vehicle detection apparatus comprising:
- a vehicle lane-line detection module configured to detect a vehicle lane-line marking in an image captured by a vehicle to which the detection module is mounted;
a region sectioning module configured to section the captured image based on the detected vehicle lane-line marking into an own vehicle lane region, an oncoming vehicle lane region, and a vehicle lane exterior region; and
an other-vehicle detection module configured to detect points of light and to detect other vehicles based on the points of light and the sectioned image;
wherein each region of the sectioned image is associated with a different respective detection condition; and
wherein other vehicles are detected by the other-vehicle detection module by;
detecting points of light;
determining, for each detected point of light, a particular region of the sectioned image corresponding to that detected point of light; and
identifying, for each detected point of light, an other vehicle based on the respective detection condition associated with the particular region.
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Abstract
A vehicle detection apparatus comprises an other-vehicle detection module configured to detect points of light in an image captured by a vehicle to which the vehicle detection module is mounted and to detect other vehicles based on the points of light, a vehicle lane-line detection module configured to detect an vehicle lane-line in the captured image, and a region sectioning module configured to section the captured image based on the detected vehicle lane-line into an own vehicle lane region, an oncoming vehicle lane region, and a vehicle lane exterior region. Other vehicles are detected by the other-vehicle detection module by detecting points of light based on respective detection conditions set for each of the sectioned regions.
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15 Claims
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1. A vehicle detection apparatus comprising:
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a vehicle lane-line detection module configured to detect a vehicle lane-line marking in an image captured by a vehicle to which the detection module is mounted; a region sectioning module configured to section the captured image based on the detected vehicle lane-line marking into an own vehicle lane region, an oncoming vehicle lane region, and a vehicle lane exterior region; and an other-vehicle detection module configured to detect points of light and to detect other vehicles based on the points of light and the sectioned image; wherein each region of the sectioned image is associated with a different respective detection condition; and wherein other vehicles are detected by the other-vehicle detection module by; detecting points of light; determining, for each detected point of light, a particular region of the sectioned image corresponding to that detected point of light; and identifying, for each detected point of light, an other vehicle based on the respective detection condition associated with the particular region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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