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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2023
Isuzu Motors Limited, Yokohama, JP;
Ryuta Tsuda, Fujisawa, JP;
Isuzu Motors Limited, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle rearward monitoring system includes: a lower camera that captures a road surface behind the truck; an upper camera disposed above the lower camera in the truck to capture the road surface behind the truck; a conversion unit that converts lower and upper camera images Gand Gcaptured by the lower and upper cameras into lower and upper bird's-eye views Tand T; an object detection unit that compares upper and lower bird's-eye views Tand Tto detect the object on the road surface from a difference of a corrected portion hidden by the object on the road surface in upper and lower camera images Gand G; and a collision possibility determination unit that makes a driver of the truck recognize a possibility of collision when there is a possibility of collision with the object detected by the object detection unit with the truck.