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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2002
Shoji Muramatsu, Hitachi, JP;
Yuji Otsuka, Hitachi, JP;
Yoshiki Kobayashi, Hitachi, JP;
Hiroshi Takenaga, Tokai, JP;
Jiro Takezaki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Tatsuhiko Monji, Hitachinaka, JP;
Isao Furusawa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Shoji Muramatsu, Hitachi, JP;
Yuji Otsuka, Hitachi, JP;
Yoshiki Kobayashi, Hitachi, JP;
Hiroshi Takenaga, Tokai, JP;
Jiro Takezaki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Tatsuhiko Monji, Hitachinaka, JP;
Isao Furusawa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a processing amount reduction unit, the selected image data is transferred to a RAM in a single chop by a data transfer unit, and the processing of recognizing a white line is executed by a CPU on the basis of the image data stored in the RAM.