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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Taketo Akama, Tokyo, JP;
Suguru Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Oyaizu, Tokyo, JP;
Yasutaka Hirasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yuhi Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus includes an input unit and a control unit. To the input unit, a pickup image of a camera provided to an own vehicle is input. The control unit detects a mirror provided to a different vehicle that exists in front of the own vehicle from the input pickup image, detects a person from a mirror image of the detected mirror, and recognizes a state of the person from an image of the detected person. Further, the control unit performs an alerting process or a control process for the own vehicle to prevent an accident of the own vehicle or the different vehicle in accordance with the recognized state of the person.
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