Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device for detecting/judging road boundary
- Patent Title (中): 用于检测/判断道路边界的装置
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Application No.: US12920405Application Date: 2009-06-10
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Publication No.: US08411900B2Publication Date: 2013-04-02
- Inventor: Takuya Naka , Tatsuhiko Monji
- Applicant: Takuya Naka , Tatsuhiko Monji
- Applicant Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2008-237878 20080917
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/060975 WO 20090610
- International Announcement: WO2010/032523 WO 20100325
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
There is provided a road boundary detection/judgment device resistant to environmental change and capable of detecting even a road boundary demarcated by a three-dimensional object in the distance. The device is provided with: an image acquisition section having two or more cameras for image-capturing the road area; a distance data acquisition section acquiring three-dimensional distance information about an image-capture area on the basis of an image obtained by the image acquisition section; a road boundary detection section detecting the height of a three-dimensional object existing in the road area on the basis of the three-dimensional distance information obtained by the distance data acquisition section to detect a road boundary; and a same boundary judgment section transforming the image, for a first road area where the height of a three-dimensional object corresponding to a road boundary could be detected and a second road area where the height of a three-dimensional object corresponding to a road boundary could not be detected, and judging whether the three-dimensional object corresponding to the first road area and the three-dimensional object corresponding to the second road area are the same. If it is judged that the three-dimensional objects corresponding to the first and second road area boundaries are the same, the second road area is reset as the first road area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110063097A1 Device for Detecting/Judging Road Boundary Public/Granted day:2011-03-17
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