Invention Grant
- Patent Title: On-board device controlling accumulation removing units
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Application No.: US14409689Application Date: 2013-07-03
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Publication No.: US09956941B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Masahiro Kiyohara , Kota Irie , Katsuyuki Nakamura , Shoji Muramatsu , Masayuki Takemura , Osamu Fukata , Yasuhisa Hayakawa
- Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd. , Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Saitama-shi JP Yokohama-shi
- Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.,Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.,Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Saitama-shi JP Yokohama-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2012-149868 20120703
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/068274 WO 20130703
- International Announcement: WO2014/007294 WO 20140109
- Main IPC: B60S1/08
- IPC: B60S1/08 ; B60R1/00 ; H04N5/217 ; H04N5/225 ; G08G1/16 ; B05B12/08

Abstract:
An on-board device, that outputs a control signal to a cleaning control unit that controls accumulation removing units used to remove accumulations settled on a photographic lens in an on-board camera by adopting a plurality of methods, includes: an accumulation detection unit that detects an accumulation settled on the photographic lens from a photographic image output from the on-board camera when a vehicle speed input thereto is equal to or higher than a predetermined vehicle speed; a selection unit that selects an accumulation removing unit adopting a first method among the accumulation removing units adopting the plurality of methods; and a removal decision unit that makes a decision, based upon the photographic image, as to whether or not the accumulation has been removed from the photographic lens through a removal operation performed by the accumulation removing unit adopting the first method, which has been selected by the selection unit, wherein: if the removal decision unit decides that the accumulation has not been removed from the photographic lens, the selection unit selects an accumulation removing unit adopting a second method, different from the accumulation removing unit adopting the first method, based upon a number of times that the removal operation has been performed by engaging the accumulation removing unit adopting the first method.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150329083A1 On-Board Device Public/Granted day:2015-11-19
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