Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sho Horiuchi

Tomoaki Iida

An infrared light projection control apparatus controls a projection of infrared light from an infrared light projection device which is mounted on a vehicle and projects the infrared light onto at least a part of a surrounding of the vehicle. The infrared light projection control apparatus acquires capturing condition information corresponding to information on a capturing condition for capturing the surrounding of the vehicle by a capturing device mounted on the vehicle and acquiring images of the surrounding of the vehicle, and projects the infrared light from the infrared light projection device when the capturing condition identified by the capturing condition information satisfies a predetermined condition.

Infrared light projection control apparatus, infrared light projection control method, and computer-readable storage medium storing infrared light projection control program

A vehicular image processing system includes: a plurality of first camera units configured to acquire a recognition image which is used for a recognition process of recognizing an object present in a nearby area of a vehicle; a recognition unit configured to perform the recognition process; and a communication unit communicatively connected to the first camera units and the recognition unit and configured to receive the recognition images transmitted from the first camera units and to transmit the recognition images to the recognition unit. The communication unit is configured to transmit the recognition images to the recognition unit such that timings of transmission of the recognition images received from the plurality of first camera units to the recognition unit differ. The recognition unit is configured to perform the recognition process using the recognition images received from the communication unit.

Vehicular image processing system, vehicle, and image transmission method

Provided is an image pickup system including: a front camera sensor; and a camera sensor for image generation having a second horizontal angle of view. The latter camera sensor includes: an image sensor having an image pickup surface; and an optical system having a lens. The image sensor has: a specific region in which light from an object positioned within a diagonal lateral azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface; and a residual region in which light from an object positioned within a residual azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface, the residual azimuth angle range being obtained by excluding the diagonal lateral azimuth angle range from the second horizontal angle of view. The lens has a curved surface formed so that a horizontal pixel density in the specific region becomes larger than that in the residual region.

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Nagoya, Japan

Sho Horiuchi