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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2021
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Jonghyuk Lim, Seoul, KR;
Jong Hoon Kwak, Gunpo-si, KR;
Heechul Choi, Seoul, KR;
Jihee Han, Seoul, KR;
Junsik An, Seoul, KR;
Junhyung Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus for acquiring surrounding information of a vehicle includes: a camera configured to acquire an entire image of at least one surrounding vehicle; and a controller configured to derive at least one of coordinates of a wheel image area or coordinates of a front-rear image area included in an entire image area, and determine distance information from the vehicle to the at least one surrounding vehicle based on a relative positional relationship between the entire image area and the at least one of the wheel image area coordinates or the front-rear image area coordinates.