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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2015
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Takeshi Shima, Tokyo, JP;
Takuma Osato, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Takemura, Tokyo, JP;
Yuuji Otsuka, Hitachinaka, JP;
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
The present invention addresses the problem of attaining an object recognition device that can change control of a vehicle in accordance with the reliability of detection of a target object. The object recognition device according to the present invention recognizes a target object around a vehicle and includes: a distance-information-based target object determination unitthat determines whether or not an objectis a target object by using distance information from the vehicleto the object; an image-information-based target object determination unitthat determines whether or not the objectis a target object by using image information obtained by capturing an image of the objectfrom the vehicle; and a target object detection reliability calculation unitthat calculates the reliability of detection of a target object by using the distance information and the image information.