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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
May. 10, 2017
Clarion Co., Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Kohei Mandai, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Fukuda, Saitama, JP;
Shuzo Kaneko, Saitama, JP;
Hiroaki Andou, Hitachi, JP;
CLARION CO., LTD., Saitama, JP;
Abstract
An in-vehicle deviceincludes an image acquisition unitthat acquires an image photographed by a cameraincluding a lens, a storage unit, a dirt detection unitthat detects dirt on the lens on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquisition unitand that stores dirt region information indicating a region where the dirt exists in the image into the storage unit, a dirt removal information generation unitthat generates dirt removal information indicating a region where the dirt on the lens is removed, and a rewriting unitthat rewrites the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information. Accordingly, it is possible to rewrite the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information.