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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
May. 27, 2005
Hiroyuki Koike, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yoichi Sugimoto, Utsunomiya, JP;
Ichiro Masaki, Boxborough, MA (US);
Izumi Kondo, Shioya-gun, JP;
Shugo Kondo, Utsunomiya, JP;
Hiroyuki Koike, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yoichi Sugimoto, Utsunomiya, JP;
Ichiro Masaki, Boxborough, MA (US);
Izumi Kondo, Shioya-gun, JP;
Shugo Kondo, Utsunomiya, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Massachusetts Intstitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A support apparatus for sense of vision includes: a filter device that extracts low frequency components, and respective high frequency components in at least a horizontal direction and a vertical direction from original images obtained by image capture by a plurality of image pickup devices, a frequency component combining device that combines the low frequency components of each of the original images extracted by the filter device to generate a combined low frequency component, and combines the high frequency components of each of the original images extracted by the filter device in at least the horizontal direction and the vertical direction to generate a combined horizontal high frequency component and a combined vertical high frequency component; and a composite image formation device that combines the low combined frequency component, the combined horizontal high frequency component, and the combined vertical high frequency component, generated by the frequency component combining device, to generate a composite image.