Abstract:
A method for preventing a vehicle from deviating from a lane is provided, in which precise determinations of whether a vehicle is deviating from a lane may also be made when driving on curved sections of a road. Using DSRC, which is a system enabling communications between a vehicle and roadside equipment, information of road curvature and lane width is received. This road information and setting information of a camera mounted to the vehicle are then used to determine a lane deviation determination standard angle, which is used in curved sections of the road. A difference between the standard angle and a center value of left and right lane marker angles is compared with a critical value to determine whether the vehicle is deviating from the lane.
Abstract:
It is detected whether an automobile is running in a direction departing from a traffic lane, has already departed from the lane, or is running in a direction recovering from departure, by mounting on the automobile a steering angle detecting device for detecting an actual steering angle based on steering wheel operation of a driver, a television camera for taking pictures of the lane and a computer for processing the pictures taken by the television camera. The television camera is used to take pictures of markers on the lane while the automobile is running on the lane, and video signals are input into the computer. The computer is then used to process the input signals, thereby setting a virtual reference line forming a cubic curve approximating the set virtual reference line, calculating a virtual standard steering angle from a coefficient of a function representing the cubic curve, and comparing the steering angle detected by the detecting device based on the steering wheel operation of the driver with the virtual standard steering angle calculated by the computer.
Abstract:
An image processing method comprises the steps of generating a road image by photographing a road on which a vehicle is traveling; performing a brightness averaging process of the road image; filtering the road image having undergone the brightness averaging process to detect lane markers; performing an inverse perspective process on the filtered road image; compressing the road image having undergone the inverse perspective process; determining slope in the lane markers from the compressed road image; determining a curvature in the road from the determined slope in the lane markers; and determining a drive direction and a lane deviation of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A lane recognition apparatus for a vehicle is comprised of an image picking-up section which picks up a road image in front of the vehicle, a lane-marker candidate-point detecting section which detects coordinate values of a plurality of lane marker candidate points from the road image, and a road model parameter calculating section which estimates a road model parameter representative of a road shape in front of the vehicle and a vehicle state quantity of the vehicle using an extended Kalman filter, on the basis of the coordinate values of the lane marker candidate points.
Abstract:
A device for acquiring data indicative of the path of a lane is provided. The device incorporates a lane detection sensing circuit, an object position sensing circuit that detects at least the distance of an object located in front of the vehicle and its directional angle relative to the direction of vehicle motion, and a sensing circuit for the vehicle's own motion. An estimating device is provided that is supplied with lane recognition measurement data, object position measurement data, and measurement data on the vehicle's own motion. As a function of the vehicle's own motion, the estimating device determines the lane curvature and/or the transverse position of an object ahead of the vehicle relative to the lane by estimation, using a presettable estimation algorithm including a dynamic vehicle motion model. The device preferably includes a Kalman filter for this purpose, and is used, for example, in road vehicles.
Abstract:
The invention provides a vehicle with a laterally mounted optical scanning device for zero-contact scanning of a lateral highway area and an evaluation unit connected thereto. The optical scanning device comprises a linear array of infrared transmitting devices located side by side and a corresponding CCD array, and the connected evaluation unit is programmed to perform time measurement, contrast measurement, and contour recognition. With this optical scanning system, a function to warn against falling asleep, an automatic lane maintenance function, a rear-area monitoring or environment monitoring function for the vehicle can be provided, with reaction to various types of lane boundaries being possible depending on the situation.
Abstract:
A lane detection sensor for detecting opposite lane markers of a road, comprising: an image shooting member for shooting an image of the road ahead of a running motor vehicle; an image data memory for storing data on the image of the road from the image shooting member; a contour point extracting member for extracting, by using the data on the image of the road stored in the image data memory, contour points corresponding to the lane markers of the road; a curve detecting member for calculating polynomial curves by using the contour points corresponding to the lane markers of the road from the contour point extracting member; a Hough transformation limiting member for bounding a region of Hough transformation by using coefficients of the polynomial curves calculated by the curve detecting member; a Hough transformation member for performing Hough transformation by using the polynomial curves from the curve detecting member and the region of Hough transformation bounded by the Hough transformation limiting member; and a Hough transformation detecting member which obtains a maximum value of accumulators in Hough space so as to detect a curve corresponding to the maximum value of the accumulators.
Abstract:
An off-lane alarm apparatus quantizes an image signal provided from a line camera mounted on a car roof is into a corresponding binary image by an image processing device to detect a lane on a road surface, so that an alarm is generated when an off-lane state of the car from the lane is detected. After mounting a line camera on a car, markers preset at predetermined positions outside of the car are shot and preliminarily stored as binary image signals and the positional information is used as car side positional information for alarm determinations.
Abstract:
A method for estimating an inherent movement of a vehicle. The method includes a step of classifying, a step of detecting, and a step of ascertaining. In the step of classifying, at least one portion of a camera image representing a classified object is classified into an object category which represents stationary objects. In the step of detecting, at least one detection point of the portion in the camera image classified into the object category is detected in the camera image by utilizing a detection algorithm. In the step of ascertaining, an estimated inherent movement of the vehicle is ascertained by utilizing the detection point.
Abstract:
A vehicular lane change system includes a forward-viewing camera that has a field of view through the vehicle windshield that encompasses a road being traveled along by the vehicle. Responsive at least in part to processing of image data captured by the camera, a control determines the lane traveled by the vehicle. The control is operable to detect a lane change maneuver of the vehicle to a lane immediately adjacent to the lane traveled by the vehicle. Detection of the lane change maneuver is based at least in part on vehicle steering data and/or image processing of captured image data. Responsive to the control detecting the lane change maneuver of the vehicle when the driver of the vehicle has neglected to turn on an appropriate turn signal indicator of the vehicle, the control automatically turns on the turn signal indicator at the appropriate side of the vehicle.