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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Nobukazu Shima, Hyogu, JP;
Akihiro Oota, Hyogu, JP;
Kenji Oka, Hyogo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujitsu Ten Limited, Hyogo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image size changing section obtains a size changed image by changing the size of one of two original images captured by a pair of cameras. If an edge of an object has many oblique components, the edge is difficult to detect as a vertical edge but, when the image is horizontally reduced, an oblique edge becomes close to a vertical edge. For this reason, feature end points are extracted with reliability by a feature extracting section and, thereby, an object is recognized and the distance to the object is determined reliably.