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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroyuki Ogura, Shizuoka, JP;
Naoto Ishikawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/00 ; G06F 1/710 ; G06G 7/78 ; B60Q 1/00 ; G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/00 ; G06F 1/710 ; G06G 7/78 ; B60Q 1/00 ; G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
An image pick-up means mounted in the motor vehicle picks up a side direction of a driver's own vehicle. An approaching object detecting means detects an approaching degree of an approaching object which approaches his own vehicle from a side direction road crossing his own vehicle on the basis of two images picked up at two timings apart by a prescribed interval by the image pick-up means. A danger decision means decides a danger on the basis of the approaching degree. In such a configuration, a side-monitoring apparatus for a motor vehicle can accurately know the danger of collision with the object approaching from the side direction road.
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