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Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Masakazu Nishijima, Ebina, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30256 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: a determiner that determines whether or not a vehicle in which a camera is mounted is located at a specific place where a traveling direction of the vehicle changes, the camera picking up an image of an entire image pickup range with first image quality and picking up an image of a partial region in the image pickup range with second image quality that is higher image quality than the first image quality; and a region changer that, when it is determined that the vehicle is located at the specific place, changes a position of the partial region in the image pickup range such that an image of a region of attention that is included in the image pickup range and an image of which is to be picked up with the second image quality is picked up.


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