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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Takuya Nanri, Kanagawa, JP;
Hisashi Kurokawa, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Ishihara, Osaka, JP;
Hirofumi Nishimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Device () comprises: a stereo image acquisition unit () for acquiring a standard image and a reference image for a stereo image; an image segmenting unit () for acquiring standard pixel data and reference pixel data from the stereo image; a phase correction unit () for carrying out for each of the pixel data a phase correction process making the values of the standard pixel data more symmetrical; a windowing unit () for applying a windowing function to each of the pixel data that have undergone phase correction; a phase correlation unitfor calculating a phase correlation value between the two pixel data that have undergone windowing; and a peak position detection unit () for calculating, on the basis of the phase correlation value, the parallax of a corresponding point of the reference image with respect to a standard point on the standard image.