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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2009
Noboru Nagamine, Anjo, JP;
Kazuya Watanabe, Anjo, JP;
Takeshi Naito, Toyota, JP;
Tadashi Asano, Gifu, JP;
Noboru Nagamine, Anjo, JP;
Kazuya Watanabe, Anjo, JP;
Takeshi Naito, Toyota, JP;
Tadashi Asano, Gifu, JP;
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A surrounding recognition assisting device for a vehicle includes an image receiving portion for receiving a captured footage, which is configured with plural frames captured by an image capturing device for capturing a view around the vehicle, a target image area-detecting portion for detecting an image area including a picture element belonging to a predetermined color space corresponding to a display color of a direction indicator within a target frame out of plural frames, as a target image area, a residual image generating portion for applying a predetermined weighting to an image within the target image area to generate a residual image, and a display image generating portion for superimposing the residual image on at least one of frames following the target frame so that the residual image is superimposed on the frame at a corresponding coordinate to generate a display image to be displayed on a display device.