SPEED DETECTING METHOD AND SPEED DETECTING APPARATUS

• US 20180025497A1
• Filed: 12/22/2016
• Published: 01/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Inventors: Lai, Hung-Ching
• Application Number:
  US15/387,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20180025497A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30224 Ball; Puck
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30248 Vehicle exterior or interior
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30261 Obstacle
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/246 using feature-based methods, e.g. the tracking of corners or segments
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/248 involving reference images or patches
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/56 provided with illuminating means

Abstract

A speed detecting apparatus comprising: an image capturing apparatus, configured to capture at least one object to be detected image for an object to be detected; and a speed computing apparatus, configured to compute a moving speed for the object to be detected according to an after image length for an after image in the object to be detected image.

Claims

1. A speed detecting method, applied to a speed detecting apparatus comprising an image capturing apparatus, comprising:

(a) capturing at least one object to be detected image for an object to be detected via the image capturing apparatus; and

(b) computing a moving speed for the object to be detected according to an after image length for an after image in the object to be detected image.

2. The speed detecting method of claim 1, wherein the step (b) computes the moving speed of the object to be detected according to after image lengths for a plurality of object to be detected images.

3. The speed detecting method of claim 1, wherein the step (a) captures the image to be detected according to an image capturing time interval, wherein the step (b) further computes the moving speed according to the image capturing time interval.

4. The speed detecting method of claim 1, wherein the speed detecting apparatus further comprises a distance computing apparatus, wherein the speed detecting method further comprises:

(c) computing an object to be detected distance between the speed detecting apparatus and the object to be detected via the distance computing apparatus;

wherein the step (b) further computes the moving speed according to the object to be detected distance.

5. The speed detecting method of claim 4, wherein the speed detecting apparatus further comprises a light emitting device, wherein the step (c) controls the light emitting device to illuminate the object to be detected before computes the object to be detected distance.

6. The speed detecting method of claim 4, further comprising:

setting a distance range for an object to be detected distance between the object to be detected and the speed detecting apparatus according to a distance setting signal;

wherein the step (c) further computes the object to be detected distance according to the distance range.

7. The speed detecting method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting an object to be detected distance between the object to be detected and the speed detecting apparatus according to a distance setting signal;

wherein the step (b) further computes the moving speed according to the object to be detected distance.

8. A speed detecting method, applied to a speed detecting apparatus comprising a distance computing apparatus and a speed computing apparatus, the speed detecting method comprising:

(a) computing an object to be detected distance between the speed detecting apparatus and an objected to be detected via the distance computing apparatus; and

(b) computing a moving speed of the object to be detected according to the object to be detected distance via the speed computing apparatus.

9. A speed detecting apparatus, comprising:

an image capturing apparatus, configured to capture at least one object to be detected image for an object to be detected; and

a speed computing apparatus, configured to compute a moving speed for the object to be detected according to an after image length for an after image in the object to be detected image.

10. The speed detecting apparatus of claim 9, wherein the speed computing apparatus computes the moving speed of the object to be detected according to after image lengths for a plurality of object to be detected images.

11. The speed detecting apparatus of claim 10, wherein the image capturing apparatus captures the image to be detected according to an image capturing time interval, wherein the speed computing apparatus further computes the moving speed according to the image capturing time interval.

12. The speed detecting apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a distance computing apparatus configured to compute an object to be detected distance between the speed detecting apparatus and the object to be detected, wherein the speed computing apparatus further computes the moving speed according to the object to be detected distance.

13. The speed detecting apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a light emitting device, wherein the distance computing apparatus controls the light emitting device to illuminate the object to be detected before computes the object to be detected distance.

14. The speed detecting apparatus of claim 12, further setting a distance range for an object to be detected distance between the object to be detected and the speed detecting apparatus according to a distance setting signal, wherein the distance computing apparatus further computes the object to be detected distance according to the distance range.

15. The speed detecting apparatus of claim 9, further setting an object to be detected distance between the object to be detected and the speed detecting apparatus according to a distance setting signal, wherein the speed computing apparatus further computes the moving speed according to the object to be detected distance.

16. A speed detecting apparatus, comprising:

a distance computing apparatus, configured to compute an object to be detected distance between the speed detecting apparatus and an objected to be detected; and

a speed computing apparatus, configured to compute a moving speed of the object to be detected according to the object to be detected distance.