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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2003
Applicant:
Yoshiyuki Sogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiyuki Sogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A stereo matching section of a stereoscopic image processing unit evaluates a correlation of brightness between a reference pixel block picked up from a right image and a comparison pixel block picked up from a left image and calculates a parallax between these two pixel blocks having the correlation. A region control section changes over the size of these pixel blocks according to the area in which the stereo matching is performed so as to obtain a more accurate three-dimensional recognition.