Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Masayuki Takahashi

Koji Itaba

Daiki Kato

Shun Tanemoto

A gated camera divides a depth direction into a plurality of ranges and generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges. An illumination device radiates probe light. A controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of an image sensor. An image processing device generates a slice image based on a sensor image transmitted from the image sensor. The image processing device selects M (M≥2) pixel values in ascending order of pixel values for each line of the sensor image, calculates an average value of the M pixel values, and subtracts the average value from each pixel value of the corresponding line.

Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, and lighting unit for vehicle

An illumination apparatus illuminates probe light. A gating camera captures an image for each of image capture ranges divided in the depth direction. A camera controller controls a timing at which the illumination apparatus illuminates the probe light and a timing at which an image sensor is exposed such that each slice image output from the image sensor for each image capture range includes only an object included in the corresponding image capture range while changing the image capture range. An image processing unit generates a final image including the entire object of interest based on the multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple image capture ranges.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Masayuki Takahashi