公开(公告)号：US10531021B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-07

申请号：US15926435

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Osamu Shibata ,  Hiroshi Iwai ,  Kazuko Nishimura ,  Yasuo Miyake ,  Yoshiaki Satou

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/20 ,  H04N5/355

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.