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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2020
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Koki Osada, Kariya, JP;
Takayuki Hiromitsu, Kariya, JP;
Tomoyuki Fujimoto, Kariya, JP;
Takuya Miwa, Kariya, JP;
Yutaka Hamamoto, Toyota, JP;
Masumi Fukuman, Toyota, JP;
Akihiro Kida, Toyota, JP;
Kunihiro Sugihara, Nagakute, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An obstacle recognition device of a vehicle provided with a camera capturing an image around the vehicle, includes an acquiring unit sequentially acquiring the image captured by the camera; a feature point extracting unit extracting a plurality of feature points of an object included in the image; a calculation unit calculating each motion distance of the plurality of feature points between the image previously acquired and the image currently acquired by the acquiring unit; a first determination unit determining whether each motion distance of the feature points is larger than or equal to a first threshold; a second determination unit determining whether each motion distance of the feature points is larger than or equal to a second threshold; and an obstacle recognition unit recognizing an obstacle.