Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuji Yokochi

Shinnosuke Saito

Izumi Takatsudo

Nobuharu Nagaoka

Morimichi Nishigaki

Kenichi Sawada

Hirotaka Takiguchi

Fuminori Taniguchi

Masaki Negoro

Naoto Akutsu

Tetsuo Ikeda

Hiroki Nakajima

Yoshinori Kinoshita

Atsuhiro Eguchi

Yasuhiko Fujita

Toshinori Saiki

Yutaka Tokunaga

Nobuhiko Fujii

Masaru Otsuki

Izumi Tokatsudo

Naoya Hata

Hiroyuki Sakakibara

Tomokazu Takagi

A traffic sign displaying device comprises a processor including a traffic sign recognizing section recognizing first traffic sign information on a traffic sign included in an image of an area ahead of a vehicle, a traffic sign information obtaining section obtaining from map information second traffic sign information on a traffic sign of a road based on position information on the vehicle, a traffic sign display portion displaying traffic sign information and a traffic sign display control section for controlling the traffic sign display portion, wherein if the first traffic sign information does not match the second traffic sign information, the traffic sign display control section stops displaying traffic sign information after the vehicle runs a predetermined distance or over a predetermined time with the traffic sign display control section displaying on the traffic sign display portion either the first traffic sign information or the second traffic sign information.

Traffic sign displaying device

In a sign information display system or method, if a road sign is recognized by a sign recognition device, a display control device determines whether or not it will cause a sign information display device to display first sign information, which is information concerning the road sign, on the basis of a driving state of a front vehicle driving in front of the vehicle.

Road sign information display system and method in vehicle

Sign information of a traffic sign or a road marking ahead of a vehicle is detected. When two or more kinds of sign information having overlapping effective sections are detected or when the sign information contains textural information including a predetermined or more number of characters, simplified information obtained by simplifying the sign information is displayed on an MID in the vehicle.

Sign display apparatus and method for vehicle

If a first sign information detectoris normal, a first displaydisplays sign information detected by the first sign information detector, in accordance with an instruction from a control circuit. At this time, a second displayhides sign information in accordance with an instruction from the control circuit. On the other hand, if the first sign information detectoris abnormal, the first displayhides the sign information in accordance with an instruction from the control circuit. At this time, the second displaydisplays sign information detected by the second sign information detector, in accordance with an instruction from the control circuit

Sign information display system and method

A sign information output apparatus includes an output instructor for instructing an information output section to stop output of sign information if a traveled distance measured in response to the detection of a sign exceeds a threshold value, and a threshold value changer for changing a threshold value depending on at least one of interval information with respect to an interval at which signs of one type are placed, speed limit information with respect to a speed limit of the road, and a speed of the vehicle.

Sign display apparatus

The regulatory sign or traffic information presented on a roadway is detected by capturing an image of ahead of a vehicle, and also the regulatory information is detected by receiving a signal transmitted from outside the vehicle. When the regulatory information is detected from the signal transmitted from outside the vehicle, that regulatory information is notified. When no regulatory information is detected from the signal transmitted from outside the vehicle, the regulatory information detected by capturing the image of ahead of the vehicle is notified.

Regulatory information notifying device and method

A traffic sign determination device includes: an image recognition section which detects a first traffic regulation sign by performing an image recognition process on an image of an area in front of a vehicle picked up by an imaging section provided on the vehicle; a map information acquisition section which, using a position of the vehicle, acquires a road link, including a second road at the position of the vehicle, from a storage section; and a traffic sign determination section which, upon detection of a current first traffic regulation sign on a current road link, determines, until the vehicle passes an end point of the current road link, that a current traffic regulation sign to be notified to an occupant of the vehicle is the current first traffic regulation sign detected on the current road link.

Traffic sign determination device

An image recognition section detects a first traffic regulation sign from a picked-up image of an area in front of a vehicle. An acquisition section uses a position of the vehicle to acquire a road link, including a second traffic regulation sign at the position of the vehicle, from a storage section. When no current first traffic regulation sign is detected on a current road link after turning-right or turning-left of the vehicle, a determination section determines a current final traffic regulation sign on the current road link, which is to be notified to a vehicle occupant, by use of a degree of adequacy of cooperation between previous first and second traffic regulation signs detected and acquired on a previous road link before the turning-right or turning-left of the vehicle, but also previous and current factors acquired on the previous and current road links.

A surrounding area monitoring apparatus for vehicle includes an infrared camera mounted on a vehicle for capturing images of surrounding area around the vehicle, a unit for generating and displaying images based on image data captured by the camera, and a controller for calibrating output of the camera with respect to a relation between pixels, based on image data produced by imaging a surface of a shutter that opens and closes an aperture introducing a light to the camera, The controller estimates whether a temperature of the camera is stable, based on an operation state of the vehicle, and determines a possibility that a driver is looking at the unit, based on a behavior of the vehicle. When the temperature of the camera is estimated stable and the possibility that the driver is looking at the unit is determined to be low, the means for calibrating executes the calibration.

Surrounding area monitoring apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle surroundings monitoring device includes a moving direction determining unitwhich determines whether a physical body is moving in a traveling direction of a self vehicle or a transverse direction orthogonal to the traveling direction, from a change in a detection position of the physical body by a laser radar, wherein a classification determining unitexecutes a first classification determining process of determining the physical body determined to be moving in the traveling direction as a four-wheel vehicle when dimensions of the physical body obtained from the detected position by the laser radaris within a range of A, and a second classification determining process of determining the physical body determined to be moving in the transverse direction as the four-wheel vehicle when the dimensions of the physical body obtained from the detected position by the laser radaris within a range of B

Vehicle surroundings monitoring device

A vehicle periphery monitoring device comprising a distance detecting unit which detects the distance between cameras and an object, an object image extracting unit which extracts a first image portion of the object from the acquired image, a filtering unit which performs a filtering process to the acquired image, in which a target edge width is set to be narrower as the assumed value of the width is smaller and the distance is longer, and in which a target edge direction is set to a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction, and an object type identifying unit which identifies, on the basis of a shape of a second image portion extracted by the filtering process, whether or not the type of the object in real space corresponding to the second image portion is the specific type.

Vehicle periphery monitoring device, vehicle, vehicle periphery monitoring program, and vehicle periphery monitoring method

A vehicle periphery monitoring device which determines type of an object with high accuracy, wherein the size of object regions that are set in each of the image representing the peripheral condition of the vehicle in each of two different points in time and that include the identical objects, are aligned on the basis of the distance from the vehicle to the object in each of the two different point in time. Further, local regions with the same arrangement pattern are set taking each of the object regions with aligned size as reference. Still further, the object is classified into the object class which corresponds to the arrangement pattern in the case where the degree of correlation between the local regions becomes equal to or larger than a threshold value.

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