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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2018
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Taiki Kawano, Nisshin, JP;
Shunsuke Suzuki, Kariya, JP;
Shunya Kumano, Nisshin, JP;
Akihiro Watanabe, Kariya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for identifying a line marking on a road surface. In the apparatus, an extractor extracts a paint candidate that is a candidate for road surface paint used to identify a line marking in an image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle to capture an image of an area including a road surface ahead of the vehicle. A determiner determines whether or not the paint candidate has at least one predefined flare feature. A line marking identifier identifies a line marking using the paint candidate which meets an identification condition used to identify a line marking. The line marking identifier sets the identification condition to be more stringent for a flare paint candidate that is the paint candidate determined by the determiner to have the at least one predefined flare feature than for the paint candidate determined by the determiner to have no predefined flare feature.