摘要:
The present invention is provided with: an image capturing means (10) having an photographic optical system (11) and adapted for capturing an image of a predetermined area, an image conversion means (31) for viewpoint-converting an image obtained by the image capturing means to create a bird's-eye-view image; a water droplet detection means (40) for setting an arbitrary attention point in the image, a plurality of first reference points inside an imaginary circle of a predetermined radius having the attention point as the center thereof, and a plurality of second reference points corresponding to the first reference points outside the imaginary circle, detecting edge information between the first reference points and second reference points, and assessing the circularity strength of these edge information, thereby detecting water droplets attached to the photographic optical system; a first three-dimensional object detection means (33) for generating differential waveform information from the differential image of the bird's-eye-view images at different points in time obtained by the image conversion means and detecting a three-dimensional object based on the differential waveform information; a three-dimensional object assessment means (38) for assessing whether the three-dimensional object that has been detected by the first three-dimensional object detection means is another vehicle; a water droplet removal device (41) for removing water droplets attached to the photographic optical system; and a control unit (39) for operating the water droplet removal means in accordance with the water droplet attachment state detected by the water droplet detection means.
摘要:
An in-vehicle image recognizer effectively detects a moving object from an image even when a lens has grime. In a detection sensitivity adjustor (50) which adjusts detection sensitivity to be increased according to a white turbidity level (U), the detection sensitivity of a vehicle detector (70) (image recognition application execution unit), which detects the other vehicle (6) (moving object) existing in the surrounding area of a vehicle (5) with a predetermined detection sensitivity from the image obtained by an imaging unit (10) disposed in the vehicle (5) to observe the surrounding area of the vehicle (5) through a lens (12) and convert the light signal of the observed surrounding area of the vehicle (5) into an image signal, is corrected based on the attachment level M of the attached matter such as dirt or water drops to the lens (12), which is calculated by an attachment level calculator (26).
摘要:
Installed on a vehicle and provided with a camera 10 comprising a lens 11, a lens cleaning device 100 for cleaning the lens following a predetermined lens cleaning step, an adhesion state assessment unit 38 for assessing the adhesion state, including the adhesion degree of foreign matter adhered to the lens 11 based on the pixel values of pixels included in an obtained captured image, and a controller 101 for controlling the supply time of the cleaning fluid based on the assessed adhesion state of foreign matter, wherein the adhesion state assessment unit 38 assesses that the state of adhered lens contamination 11 is a first state when the adhesion degree of foreign matter is within a predetermined threshold value of equal to or greater than a first adhesion threshold and less than a second adhesion threshold, and conduct a control to cause the lens cleaning device 100 to delay the supply time of the cleaning fluid when the state of adhered lens contamination 11 is assessed as being the first state.
摘要:
The present invention is provided with a camera (10) for capturing images rearward of a vehicle, three-dimensional object detection units (33, 37) for detecting three-dimensional objects based on image information, a three-dimensional object assessment unit (34) for assessing whether or not a detected three-dimensional object is another vehicle (VX), a foreign matter detection unit (38) for detecting whether or not foreign matter has adhered to a lens based on the change over time in luminance values for each predetermined pixel of the image capturing element and the change over time in the difference between an evaluation value and a reference value, and a controller (39) for outputting control commands to the other means to suppress the assessment of foreign matter as another vehicle (VX) when foreign matter has been detected.
摘要:
An on-board device, that outputs a control signal to a cleaning control unit that controls accumulation removing units used to remove accumulations settled on a photographic lens in an on-board camera by adopting a plurality of methods, includes: an accumulation detection unit that detects an accumulation settled on the photographic lens from a photographic image output from the on-board camera when a vehicle speed input thereto is equal to or higher than a predetermined vehicle speed; a selection unit that selects an accumulation removing unit adopting a first method among the accumulation removing units adopting the plurality of methods; and a removal decision unit that makes a decision, based upon the photographic image, as to whether or not the accumulation has been removed from the photographic lens through a removal operation performed by the accumulation removing unit adopting the first method, which has been selected by the selection unit, wherein: if the removal decision unit decides that the accumulation has not been removed from the photographic lens, the selection unit selects an accumulation removing unit adopting a second method, different from the accumulation removing unit adopting the first method, based upon a number of times that the removal operation has been performed by engaging the accumulation removing unit adopting the first method.
摘要:
A three-dimensional object detection device wherein, an assessment is made regarding whether the present is daytime or nighttime when detecting a three-dimensional object based on a captured image; when an assessment has been made that the present is daytime, the edges of a subject are extracted from a first edge extraction area, including a horizon reference area that references the horizon, and a threshold value for detecting the three-dimensional object is set based on the intensity of the edges in the first edge extraction area; when an assessment has been made that the present is nighttime, the edges of a subject are extracted from a second edge extraction area, including a road edge reference area that references the road edge, and a threshold value for detecting the three-dimensional object is set based on the intensity of the edges that are extracted from the second edge extraction area.
摘要:
To clean stain on a lens caused by white turbidity. A turbidity degree calculating unit (40) calculates a degree of the white turbidity U on a surface of the lens (12) based on a brightness gradient g of an image I (x, y), and a lens cleaning control unit (60) sets a lens cleaning mode for spraying the cleaning fluid (114) or the compressed air (120), which is performed by the lens cleaning unit (70), based on the calculated turbidity degree U.