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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2006
Applicants:
Katsumi Sakata, Hyogo, JP;
Junichi Sawada, Hyogo, JP;
Inventors:
Katsumi Sakata, Hyogo, JP;
Junichi Sawada, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Ten Limited, Kobe-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus discriminates a potential obstacle in the path of a vehicle from among various objects in an image shot by a monocular camera. First, an object detecting unit detects an object in the image by applying a saliency calculation to the image. Second, an object discriminating unit discriminates an object from among the objects detected by the object detecting unit as a potential obstacle by applying a neural network method to the objects.