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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2016
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Toyota School Foundation, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hossein Tehrani Niknejad, Kariya, JP;
Utsushi Sakai, Kariya, JP;
Takashi Ogawa, Kariya, JP;
Seiichi Mita, Nagoya, JP;
Qiwei Xie, Nagoya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
TOYOTA SCHOOL FOUNDATION, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
In an object recognition apparatus, a range point acquirer irradiates each of irradiation areas arranged in a horizontally and vertically extending grid and forming a detection area for detecting a target with laser light and receives the reflected light from the respective irradiation areas, thereby acquiring a plurality of range points representing per-irradiation area coordinates of the target. A noise remover is configured to, based on either or both of degrees of angle proximity and degrees of distance proximity between a plurality of subject range points to be determined whether to be a noise point, of the plurality of range points, as viewed from a reference point, determine whether or not each of the subject range points is a noise point, and remove the noise point from the plurality of range points. An object recognizer uses the plurality of range points other than the noise points to recognize the object.