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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2003
Hiroshi Satoh, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Satoh, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A vehicular image processing apparatus and related method are disclosed as having a high speed camerathat picks up an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, a low speed image extracting unitextracting an image calculated with a low speed area calculating unita high speed image extracting unitextracting other image than that calculated with the low speed area calculating unitand an image outputting unitsynthesizing image information extracted with the high image extracting unitand image information related to the image of the low speed area to provide an output which is applied to an image recognition deviceto detect an obstacle around the vehicle or a road shape. A frame rate adjusting unitenables the output image of the low speed image extracting unitto be applied to the image outputting unit