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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2009
Nobuharu Nagaoka, Wako, JP;
Hideki Hashimoto, Wako, JP;
Nobuharu Nagaoka, Wako, JP;
Hideki Hashimoto, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus capable of, even when an object is moving, measuring the position of the object at a high accuracy. A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus () calculates the change rate (Rate(t)) of the size of an object region between two times separated by a specified interval (ΔT). The specified interval (ΔT) is a time interval defined so that the shapes and postures of an object in images resemble or match each other to such an extent that it is possible to identify that the object is identical. Based on the change rage (Rate(t)) of the size of the object region during the specified interval (ΔT), it is possible to measure the distance from a vehicle () to the object or the position at a high accuracy even when the object is moving.