Apparatus for recognizing turnoff from vehicle roadway
First Claim
1. An apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a turnoff from a roadway, the apparatus comprising:
- a white-line candidate extractor configured to apply image processing to an image of surroundings of a subject vehicle acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera to extract white-line candidates in the roadway;
a white-line likelihood calculator configured to calculate, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate, the likelihood of the white-line candidate being a likelihood that the white-line candidate is an actual white line appearing in the image;
a white-line selector configured to, based on the likelihoods of the white-line candidates calculated by the white-line likelihood calculator, select a white line; and
a turnoff determiner configured to calculate a likelihood for one of a plurality of features of the white line selected by the white-line selector, the plurality of features including (1) the lane line is not a compound line, (2) the lane line is a solid line, (3) the lane line is not a tighter curve, (4) a variation in the parallelism between left and right lane lines is greater than a predetermined value, and (5) a variation in the curvature of the lane line is greater than a predetermined value, and the turnoff determiner being configured to determine the presence or absence of a turnoff from the roadway based on the likelihood calculated by the turnoff determiner.
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Abstract
An apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a turnoff from a roadway. In the apparatus, a white-line candidate extractor applies image processing to an image of surroundings of a subject vehicle acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera to extract white-line candidates in the roadway. A white-line likelihood calculator calculates, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate. A white-line likelihood calculator calculates, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate. A turnoff determiner calculates a likelihood for one of a plurality of features of the white line selected by the white-line selector, and determines the presence or absence of a turnoff from the roadway based on the likelihood calculated by the turnoff determiner.
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1. An apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a turnoff from a roadway, the apparatus comprising:
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a white-line candidate extractor configured to apply image processing to an image of surroundings of a subject vehicle acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera to extract white-line candidates in the roadway; a white-line likelihood calculator configured to calculate, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate, the likelihood of the white-line candidate being a likelihood that the white-line candidate is an actual white line appearing in the image; a white-line selector configured to, based on the likelihoods of the white-line candidates calculated by the white-line likelihood calculator, select a white line; and a turnoff determiner configured to calculate a likelihood for one of a plurality of features of the white line selected by the white-line selector, the plurality of features including (1) the lane line is not a compound line, (2) the lane line is a solid line, (3) the lane line is not a tighter curve, (4) a variation in the parallelism between left and right lane lines is greater than a predetermined value, and (5) a variation in the curvature of the lane line is greater than a predetermined value, and the turnoff determiner being configured to determine the presence or absence of a turnoff from the roadway based on the likelihood calculated by the turnoff determiner. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a turnoff from a roadway, the apparatus comprising:
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a white-line candidate extractor configured to apply image processing to an image of surroundings of a subject vehicle acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera to extract white-line candidates in the roadway; a white-line likelihood calculator configured to calculate, for each of the white-line candidates extracted by the white-line candidate extractor, a likelihood of the white-line candidate, the likelihood of the white-line candidate being a likelihood that the white-line candidate is an actual white line appearing in the image; a white-line selector configured to, based on the likelihoods of the white-line candidates calculated by the white-line likelihood calculator, select a white line; and a turnoff determiner configured to calculate an integration of likelihoods for two or more of a plurality of features of the white line selected by the white-line selector, the plurality of features including (1) the lane line is not a compound line, (2) the lane line is a solid line, (3) the lane line is not a tighter curve, (4) a variation in the parallelism between left and right lane lines is greater than a predetermined value, and (5) a variation in the curvature of the lane line is greater than a predetermined value, and the turnoff determiner being configured to determine the presence or absence of a turnoff from the roadway based on the integration of likelihoods calculated by the turnoff determiner. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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