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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2016
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masakazu Nishijima, Ebina, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An object recognizing apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to acquire a plurality of images photographed by a stereo camera; a segment extractor configured to calculate parallax from the plurality of images and to extract a set in which the parallax is within a predetermined range, as a segment, at intervals of a certain width in an image lateral direction; a target extractor configured to extract segments coupled in the image lateral direction and an image depth direction, as a target; a calculator configured to calculate a variation amount of upper end positions and a variation amount of height widths of the segments that constitute the target; and a determinator configured to determine that the target is a haze if at least one of the variation amount of the upper end positions and the variation amount of the height widths is greater than a predetermined threshold value.