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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2009
Jun Tsunekawa, Nagoya, JP;
Masayuki Kishida, Kobe, JP;
Jun Tsunekawa, Nagoya, JP;
Masayuki Kishida, Kobe, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Fujitsu Ten Limited, Kobe-shi, JP;
Abstract
A body detection apparatus includes: movement direction calculation portion that calculates a movement direction of each of acquisition points by using signals that show the acquisition points and that are obtained through detection of a body present around the vehicle; and determination portion that pre-sets a frame commensurate with a shape of a body as a detection object, and for pre-setting for the frame a reference traveling direction as an assumed traveling direction of the body, and for determining, among the acquisition points, acquisition points present within the frame whose reference traveling direction is aligned with the movement direction as being acquisition points of a single body.