Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tadashi Asano

Kazuya Watanabe

Noboru Nagamine

Takeshi Naito

Yukihiko Yoshinaga

Akira Fujimoto

Yukihiro Matsuura

Tadashi Suzuki

Kinji Yamamoto

Shinichi Kojima

Kenichi Ohue

Jun Adachi

Yuji Ninagawa

Shoko Takeda

Yukiko Donishi

Tadatsugu Fujii

There is disclosed a calibration target detection apparatus that can be obtained at a low cost and without increasing storage capacity, is the apparatus being provided with: a light measurement region setting unit for setting a long light measurement region; a light-measuring unit for detecting light measurement information of the light measurement region; a profile generation unit for generating a first profile, wherein the long light measurement region taking a predetermined one direction as a long direction is scanned along the other direction orthogonal to the one direction, and the change in the light measurement information in the other direction is shown; and a second profile, wherein the long light measurement region taking the other direction as the long direction is scanned along the one direction, and the change in the light measurement information in the one direction is shown; and a position calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of a characteristic point of the first and second profiles, a position of a calibration target or a position of a predetermined location of the calibration target, the calibration target being used for calibrating an onboard camera, and the calibration target being included in a captured image acquired by the onboard camera.

Calibration target detection apparatus, calibration target detecting method for detecting calibration target, and program for calibration target detection apparatus

An imaging apparatus for taking an image of a face includes an imaging element having sensitivity for a near-infrared range and a visible range, a first optical filter provided between the face and the imaging element to reduce an intensity of a visible light entering the imaging element and a near-infrared light irradiating portion for irradiating the face with a near-infrared light.

Imaging apparatus and lighting apparatus for imaging

According to an aspect of this disclosure, a vehicle surrounding confirmation apparatus includes a narrow-field-of-view image generating portion generating a narrow-field-of-view image, showing a portion of a vehicle surrounding, from a captured image of the vehicle surrounding obtained by an image capturing portion, an obstacle recognizing portion recognizing an obstacle existing at the vehicle surrounding, a determining portion determining whether or not the obstacle, recognized by the obstacle recognizing portion, is included within the narrow-field-of-view image, an obstacle image extracting portion extracting an area, in which an image of the obstacle is shown, from the captured image as an obstacle image, when the obstacle, recognized by the obstacle recognizing portion, is not determined to be included within the narrow-field-of-view image, and a display image generating portion generating a display image from the narrow-field-of-view image and the obstacle image, thereby outputting the generated display image to a monitor.

Vehicle surrounding confirmation apparatus

There are provided a face image pickup device and a face image pickup method which can stably acquire a face image by appropriate illumination, and a program thereof. The face image pickup device comprises a camera which picks up an image of a face of a target person, an illumination light source which illuminates the face of the target person with near-infrared light having an arbitrary light amount, and a computer. The computer detects an area including an eye from the face image of the target person picked up by the camera. The computer measures a brightness distribution in the detected area. Thereafter, the computer controls the illumination light source so as to change the amount of near-infrared light based on the measured brightness distribution.

Face image pickup device and method

A surrounding recognition assisting device for a vehicle includes an image receiving portion for receiving a captured footage, which is configured with plural frames captured by an image capturing device for capturing a view around the vehicle, a target image area-detecting portion for detecting an image area including a picture element belonging to a predetermined color space corresponding to a display color of a direction indicator within a target frame out of plural frames, as a target image area, a residual image generating portion for applying a predetermined weighting to an image within the target image area to generate a residual image, and a display image generating portion for superimposing the residual image on at least one of frames following the target frame so that the residual image is superimposed on the frame at a corresponding coordinate to generate a display image to be displayed on a display device.

Surrounding recognition assisting device for vehicle

An eyelid detecting apparatus includes an image capturing portion for capturing a face image, a red-eye effect detecting portion for detecting a red-eye effect in which a light appears red at the pupil in the face image, the light entering through the pupil, reflecting on a choroidea of the eye, and exiting from the pupil, an eyelid detecting portion for detecting an upper eyelid and a lower eyelid in the face image on the basis of an edge appearing on a boundary between a bright portion and a dark portion and the eyelid detecting portion ignoring the edge of a red-eye effect occurring pupil so as not to be considered as the upper eyelid and the lower eyelid when the red-eye effect detecting portion detects the red-eye effect.

Eyelid detecting apparatus, eyelid detecting method and program thereof

A cooling and heating device having a cooling cycle circuit and a heating cycle circuit with a refrigerant heater for heating refrigerant includes a cooling circuit extending from a compressor through an outdoor heat exchanger, a resistance element (capillary) and an indoor heat exchanger to the suction inlet side of the compressor; and a heating circuit extending from between the discharge outlet side of the compressor and the outdoor heat exchanger directly through the indoor heat exchanger and the refrigerant heater to the suction inlet side of the compressor. In the heating operation, the high temperature refrigerant from the compressor, which is heated by the refrigerant heater, flows in the indoor heat exchanger in a direction opposite to that in which the refrigerant flows in the cooling operation, so that the refrigerant radiates heat through the indoor heat exchanger, and the refrigerant phases on either side of the indoor heat exchanger are the same for either cooling or heating.

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Gifu, Japan

Tadashi Asano