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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2016
Clarion Co., Ltd., Saitama-shi, Saitama, JP;
Hideyuki Kume, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Kiyohara, Tokyo, JP;
Kimiyoshi Machii, Tokyo, JP;
Noriyasu Hasejima, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Uchida, Saitama, JP;
Takehito Ogata, Saitama, JP;
Yuta Ohizumi, Saitama, JP;
CLARION CO., LTD., Saitama, JP;
Abstract
The obstacle detection device comprises: a first camera installed on a moving vehicle used for photographing a frontward or rearward view of the vehicle; a second camera installed on the vehicle used for photographing a sideward view of the vehicle; a parking space detection unit for detecting a parking space on the basis of an image obtained by photographing by the first camera; a memory unit for storing a real-space area of the parking space; a motion acquisition unit for acquiring information about behaviors of the vehicle; an obstacle calculation unit for calculating information about an obstacle present in the vicinity of the parking space on the basis of multiple images obtained by photographing by the second camera at different points in time; and a processing area setting unit for controlling, the calculation by the obstacle calculation unit.