Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle-surroundings monitoring device
- Patent Title (中): 车辆周边监控装置
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Application No.: US13498958Application Date: 2010-09-27
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Publication No.: US09280824B2Publication Date: 2016-03-08
- Inventor: Hisaya Fukuda
- Applicant: Hisaya Fukuda
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: JP2009-226942 20090930
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/005801 WO 20100927
- International Announcement: WO2011/039989 WO 20110407
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; G06T7/00 ; G08G1/16

Abstract:
A camera-orientation estimation unit estimates the amount of change in camera orientation on the basis of vehicle speed changes obtained from a vehicle-information acquirer. A distance-information update decision unit decides, on the basis of the amount of change in camera orientation, whether to update distance information by computing new distance information in a distance-computation unit or to update distance information using distance information stored in a distance-information memory unit. If the distance-information update decision unit has decided to update distance information by computing new distance information, a display device displays distance information that the distance-computation unit computes from a real-time image. If the distance-information update decision unit has decided to update using past stored distance information, the display device displays past distance information read from the distance-information memory unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120182426A1 VEHICLE-SURROUNDINGS MONITORING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2012-07-19
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