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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 1/14 (2013.01); G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06K 9/00825 (2013.01); G06K 9/2054 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06T 1/00 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/04 (2013.01); G06K 9/4661 (2013.01); G06K 2209/23 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle detection apparatus includes: a specific color region detection unit that detects a specific color region from an image photographed by a camera provided in a vehicle; a processing target range calculation unit that calculates a processing target range in which the other vehicle is detected in the image on the basis of the specific color region detected by the specific color region detection unit; and a vehicle region detection unit that detects a region of the other vehicle from the image within the processing target range calculated by the processing target range calculation unit.