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公开(公告)号:US20180278862A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-27
申请号:US15926435
申请日:2018-03-20
Inventor: Osamu SHIBATA , Hiroshi IWAI , Kazuko NISHIMURA , Yasuo MIYAKE , Yoshiaki SATOU
Abstract: An object is to extract the motion tracks of other vehicles from an image taken from a target vehicle. An image generating apparatus includes: a determiner circuit that determines whether surroundings of the target vehicle are in a dark place; and a control circuit that causes an image sensor including a high-sensitivity cell and a highly-saturated cell to create a highly-saturated frame by multiple exposures through the highly-saturated cell, the highly-saturated cell having lower sensitivity and larger charge storage capacity than the high-sensitivity cell, when the determiner circuit determines that the surroundings of the target vehicle are in the dark place.
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公开(公告)号:US20180275279A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-27
申请号:US15935544
申请日:2018-03-26
Inventor: Hiroshi IWAI , Osamu SHIBATA , Tomohiro HONDA , Tomohito NAGATA
CPC classification number: G01S17/89 , G01S7/4816 , G01S17/026 , G01S17/10 , G01S17/87
Abstract: An environment monitoring system being mountable on a vehicle and including: a light source that emits invisible light; a plurality of first optical/electrical converters that output a signal indicating an amount of incident light, upon reception of invisible light emitted from the light source and reflected off a target in a first visual field that is a part of visual field in surroundings of the vehicle; a plurality of second optical/electrical converters that constitute a optical/electrical converter array together with the plurality of first optical/electrical converters and output a signal indicating an amount of incident light, upon reception of visual light from a second visual field containing the first visual field; and a control device that derives a distance to the target in accordance with output signals from the plurality of first optical/electrical converters. The light source emits invisible light toward the first visual field.
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公开(公告)号:US20210385366A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-09
申请号:US17405501
申请日:2021-08-18
Inventor: Yoshiaki SATOU , Sanshiro SHISHIDO , Yasuo MIYAKE , Kazuko NISHIMURA , Hiroshi IWAI , Osamu SHIBATA
Abstract: A camera system including an imaging device that captures a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that captures a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and a control circuit. The the imaging device captures the second image in a first frame period, and the control circuit determines, based on the second image captured in the first frame period, whether to capture an image by the normal exposure or capture an image by the multiple exposure in a second frame period following the first frame period.
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公开(公告)号:US20210197707A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-01
申请号:US17202670
申请日:2021-03-16
Inventor: Hiroshi IWAI , Ryosuke SHIOZAKI , Shuji AKAMATSU , Osamu SHIBATA , Ken TAKAHASHI
IPC: B60Q1/04 , H01Q1/44 , H01Q1/32 , F21S41/30 , G01S13/931
Abstract: A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp unit having: a first cover, and a light source that emits light through a first cover into a predetermined area including a first direction. The light apparatus also includes: a radar unit provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp unit, and a separator provided between the lamp unit and the radar unit. The radar unit includes: a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal state, and an antenna unit that transmits an electromagnetic wave in a range including a second direction different from the first direction and that receives a reflected wave from an object existing outside the vehicle. The antenna unit is arranged in the board surface.
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公开(公告)号:US20200339032A1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-29
申请号:US16926320
申请日:2020-07-10
Inventor: Hiroshi IWAI , Ryosuke SHIOZAKI , Shuji AKAMATSU , Osamu SHIBATA , Ken TAKAHASHI
IPC: B60Q1/04 , H01Q1/44 , H01Q1/32 , F21S41/30 , G01S13/931
Abstract: An in-vehicle light apparatus for a vehicle is provided and includes lamp radar units. The lamp unit includes a light source and a reflector arranged around the light source and outputting light from an opening area of the reflector to a predetermined region including in a first direction. The radar unit is provided on a lower or upper side of the lamp unit and includes a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal state and an antenna unit that transmits an electromagnetic wave and receives a reflected wave in a second direction. The opening area extends in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction in plan view, and a direction perpendicular to the second direction on the board surface is a direction intersecting the first direction and non-parallel to the third direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20190304123A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-03
申请号:US16365301
申请日:2019-03-26
Inventor: Hiroshi IWAI , Osamu SHIBATA , Tetsuro OKUYAMA
Abstract: In order to accurately identify a boundary between an object and a space, an identification apparatus includes circuitry that receives first distance image information obtained by imaging an object from a first point, using an imaging apparatus and second distance image information obtained by imaging the object from a second point different from the first point, using the imaging apparatus, derives first distance information from the first point to a plurality of feature points of the object based on the first distance image information and derives second distance information from the second point to the plurality of feature points based on the second distance image information, identifies a boundary between the object and a space based on the first distance information and the second distance information, and outputs an identification result from the identifying to an external apparatus.
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公开(公告)号:US20190266425A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-29
申请号:US16283217
申请日:2019-02-22
Inventor: Hiroshi IWAI , Koji ARATA , Osamu SHIBATA , Tetsuro OKUYAMA
Abstract: In order to accurately identify a posture of an occupant of a moving object, identification apparatus which identifies the posture of the occupant of the moving object includes distance measurer that determines a feature point of the occupant based on an infrared image or a distance image each obtained by imaging apparatus and derives a distance to the feature point by using a time of flight distance measurement method, and identifier that identifies the posture of the occupant based on the distances to a plurality of the feature points.
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公开(公告)号:US20190118823A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-25
申请号:US16169002
申请日:2018-10-24
Inventor: Tetsuro OKUYAMA , Hiroshi IWAI , Osamu SHIBATA , Takehiro TANAKA
IPC: B60W40/076 , G06T7/50
Abstract: There is provided a road surface detection apparatus which can precisely estimate a road surface grade. The road surface detection apparatus includes: an inputter that receives an input of an image signal from an imaging apparatus; a distance measurer that divides a road surface into a plurality of cells based on the image signal, and derives a distance to a representative point of each of the cells by a time of flight distance measurement method; and an estimator that estimates a gradient of the road surface based on the distances to a plurality of representative points.
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公开(公告)号:US20180278861A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-27
申请号:US15926398
申请日:2018-03-20
Inventor: Osamu SHIBATA , Hiroshi IWAI , Kazuko NISHIMURA , Yasuo MIYAKE , Yoshiaki SATOU
CPC classification number: H04N5/353 , G06T7/20 , G06T2207/30236 , G06T2207/30241 , H04N5/232 , H04N5/2625 , H04N5/343 , H04N5/35536 , H04N5/374
Abstract: An objective is recognition of the travel direction of an object captured in an image frame. An image generating apparatus includes: a receiver circuit that receives a single exposure frame created by a single exposure and a multiple exposure frame created by multiple exposures after the single exposure frame, the single exposure frame and the multiple exposure frame being output from an image sensor; and a control circuit that specifies a starting point of a motion track of an object in the multiple exposure frame in accordance with a position of the object in the single exposure frame and a position of the same object in the multiple exposure frame.
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