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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Inventors:
Toshiyuki Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Shima, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuhiko Monji, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroshi Kuroda, Ibaraki, JP;
Keiichi Betsui, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka-Shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G01C 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/003 (2013.01); G01C 3/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention addresses the problem of providing an imaging device that prevents mismatching in image matching for parallax calculation even if the sharpnesses of an end part and center part of a processing area differ. An imaging deviceaccording to the present invention is provided with a means for equalizing the sharpnesses of the processing areas of a reference image and a comparison image.