Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Tyco Electronics Japan G.k.

Kunihiro Sugihara

Goro Asai

Tomoaki Iida

Akihiro Kida

Masumi Fukuman

Taichi Hasegawa

Yuka Shidochi

Yutaka Hamamoto

Yuki Takahashi

Takayuki Hiromitsu

Yoshiki Hayakawa

Takuya Miwa

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Atsushi Kobayashi

Shoji Inagaki

Yusuke Mito

Hidenori Tanaka

Youhei Suzuki

Yuki Yamagami

Katsuyuki Fukuda

Akira Egashira

Koki Osada

Tomoyuki Fujimoto

Kyohei Ozaki

An object detection device is configured to be mounted to an own vehicle to detect an object present around the own vehicle. The object detection device includes a coordinate acquisition section and an object recognition section. The coordinate acquisition section acquires position coordinates of a detection point corresponding to the object on the basis of a plurality of images captured at different positions along with movement of the own vehicle by one imaging section mounted to the own vehicle. The object recognition section recognizes the object without using position coordinates of a movement point that is a detection point corresponding to a moving object but using position coordinates of a stop point that is a detection point different from the movement point.

Object detection device, object detection method, and storage medium

A control device to be applied to a vehicle equipped with an imaging device and a safety device is configured to, based on moving-object detection information detected from images captured by the imaging device, actuate the safety device for a moving object. In the control device, a control unit is configured to, in response to any of certain information that it is certain that the object is a moving object and uncertain information indicating that it is not certain whether the object is a moving object being acquired as moving-object detection information, actuate the safety device based on a position of the object subjected to detection with the certain information or the uncertain information. An actuation region setting unit is configured to, when the moving-object detection information is the uncertain information, narrow an actuation region as compared to when the moving-object detection information is the certain information.

Control device for controlling safety device in vehicle

A moving object determination device applied to a vehicle, the device includes at least a predicted time calculation unit, a time difference calculation unit, and a moving/stationary determination unit. The predicted time calculation unit calculates a predicted time from when an obstacle starts to be detected by the first sensor to when the obstacle will no longer be detected by the second sensor based on a traveling speed of the obstacle and a length of the obstacle. The time difference calculation unit calculates a real time from when the obstacle has been detected by the first sensor to when the obstacle has no longer been detected by the second sensor, and calculates a time difference between the real time and the predicted time. The moving/stationary determination unit determines that the obstacle is a stationary object in response to the time difference being equal to or greater than a predetermined value.

Moving object determination device

Provided is an input unit to which input signals are inputted, the input signals including signals indicating operating states of switches used for operating the electronic mirror and used for selecting a display mode from among the plurality of display modes to be displayed by the electronic mirror; a storage unit that together with prioritizing and storing each of a plurality of display modes in a hierarchical structure, stores mode setting conditions that are conditions for setting each display mode; a determination unit for determining whether or not the mode setting conditions are satisfied for each of the plurality of display modes based on the input signals; and a setting unit that, of the plurality of display modes, sets a display mode from among the display modes for which the mode setting conditions are satisfied, as a display mode to be displayed on the electronic mirror.

Display control device for electronic mirror, and electronic mirror system including the same

An electronic mirror system includes: a camera for capturing images of surroundings of a vehicle; a display unit for displaying an image captured by the camera; a switch unit including an adjustment switch and a multi-function switch; and a control unit for performing a process according to a signal from the switch unit. When the multi-function switch is operated, the control unit executes a process selected from a plurality of set processes according to a state of the vehicle; and in a case where the executed process is a transition to a mode for changing setting information of the system, and when the adjustment switch is operated after the transition, the control unit changes the setting information according to a signal from the adjustment switch.

Electronic mirror system

An obstacle recognition device of a vehicle provided with a camera capturing an image around the vehicle, includes an acquiring unit sequentially acquiring the image captured by the camera; a feature point extracting unit extracting a plurality of feature points of an object included in the image; a calculation unit calculating each motion distance of the plurality of feature points between the image previously acquired and the image currently acquired by the acquiring unit; a first determination unit determining whether each motion distance of the feature points is larger than or equal to a first threshold; a second determination unit determining whether each motion distance of the feature points is larger than or equal to a second threshold; and an obstacle recognition unit recognizing an obstacle.

Obstacle recognition device

An obstacle identification apparatus acquires an image that is captured by a camera that is mounted to a vehicle. The obstacle identification apparatus calculates a first gradient that is a gradient in a first direction of a luminance value of pixels in the image and a second gradient that is a gradient of the luminance value in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction of the first gradient. Based on the first gradient and the second gradient, the obstacle identification apparatus estimates a shadow boundary that is a boundary between an own-vehicle shadow that is a shadow of the own vehicle and an object outside the vehicle. Based on the estimated shadow boundary, the obstacle identification apparatus estimates the own-vehicle shadow.

Obstacle identification apparatus and obstacle identification program

An image display apparatus has: a synthesizing device () for synthesizing a rear image (B) captured by a rear imaging device (B) for imaging a rear area of the vehicle () and a first rear side image (BL,BR) captured by a first rear side imaging device (BL,BR) for imaging a first rear side area of the vehicle to generate a synthesized image (C); and a displaying device () for displaying the synthesized image. The synthesizing device varies a proportion of an area of each of the rear image and the first rear side image to the synthesized image on the basis of a first information relating to a first turn indicator configured to operate to inform that the vehicle travels rightward or leftward.

Image display apparatus

An image display apparatus has: a synthesizing device () for synthesizing a rear image (B) captured by a rear imaging device (B) for imaging rear area of a first vehicle () and a rear side image (BL,BR) captured by a rear side imaging device (BL,BR) for imaging rear side area of the first vehicle to generate a synthesized image (C); and a display () for displaying the synthesized image. The synthesizing device varies a proportion of each of a rear image area and a rear side image area to the synthesized image based on velocity of the first vehicle and/or a distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle existing at the rear of the first vehicle, wherein the rear image area and the rear side image area are areas in which the rear image and the rear side image are displayed, respectively, in the synthesized image.

An exposure control device of a vehicle-mounted camera comprises an illuminance level determination unit, a plurality of timers, a timer operating unit, and an exposure level determination unit. The illuminance level determination unit determines that an illumination level of an external light illuminance corresponds to one of a plurality of illuminance levels. The timers each provided for a corresponding one of a plurality of change modes, the change modes being defined among the plurality of illuminance levels, or among a plurality of exposure levels for an exposure of a vehicular camera. The timer operating unit operates each of the timers in accordance with a state of change of the illuminance level of the external light illuminance. The exposure level determination unit determines one of the exposure levels for the exposure of the vehicular camera based on a count state of each of the timers.

Exposure control device and exposure control method

An image display apparatus has: a synthesizing device () for synthesizing a rear image (B) and a rear side image (BL,BR) to generate a synthesized image (C), wherein the rear image is captured by a rear imaging device (B) for imaging a rear area of a vehicle () and the rear side image is captured by a rear side imaging device (BL,BR) for imaging a rear side area of the vehicle; and a displaying device () for displaying the synthesized image, the synthesizing device generates the synthesized image so that the synthesized image generated when the vehicle goes in reverse includes a first scene that is below, viewed from the vehicle, a second scene that is included in the synthesized image generated when the vehicle does not go in reverse.

A vehicle surroundings display device includes an imaging device, a display device, and a controller is provided. The imaging device images a region toward a rear side of a vehicle and sideways from the vehicle. The display device is capable of displaying an image captured by the imaging device. The controller controls display of the display device, and selectively a normal active mode, a power-off active mode, a standby mode and a shut-down mode.

Vehicle surroundings display device

A vehicle surroundings display device is provided. The vehicle surroundings display device includes an imaging device, a display device, and a display controller. The imaging device images a region toward a rear side of a vehicle and sideways from the vehicle. The display device is capable of displaying an image captured by the imaging device. The display controller displays a first predetermined area of the image as a first display image on the display device in cases in which a direction indicator of the vehicle is in an inactive state, displays a second predetermined area of the image corresponding to an activated side of the direction indicator as a second display image on the display device in cases in which the direction indicator has transitioned from an inactive state to an active state, the second predetermined area being wider than the first predetermined area and including the first predetermined area, and switches a display on the display device from the second display image to the first display image after a predetermined standby duration has elapsed when the direction indicator has transitioned from an active state to an inactive state.

An image display apparatus has: an imaging device (L,R) that is placed at a door (L,R) of a vehicle () and that is configured to image an external circumstance of the vehicle; a displaying device () that is configured to display an external image captured by the imaging device; and a controlling device () that is configured to control an display aspect of the display when the display displays the external image, the controlling device is configured to control the display aspect such that the display aspect when the door is in an opened state is different from the display aspect when the door is in a closed state.

A secondary air supply device for an internal combustion engine includes: an electric air pump that supplies secondary air into an exhaust pipe of the internal combustion engine; a controller that controls actuation of the electric air pump according to an operating state of the internal combustion engine; and an air flow mechanism that rotates the electric air pump by causing air in the electric air pump to flow. The controller uses the air flow mechanism to rotate the electric air pump before energizing the electric air pump.

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Nagakute, Japan

Kunihiro Sugihara