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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0008 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an in-vehicle stereo camera which enables the continuation of automated driving if failures occur during imaging. A pair of captured images, which is captured by a pair of imaging units so that both contain an overlapping region, are acquired (S), it is determined whether an abnormal region is present in at least one of the pair of captured images, and if an abnormal region is present, the degree of impact from the abnormal region on an object recognition process of an object recognition unit is diagnosed (S), and the processing content of the object recognition process is updated according to the degree of impact (S).