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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2009
Yoshitaka Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Clarion Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An approaching object detection system, approaching object can be accurately detected while reducing the load on a calculation processing. A first moving region detection unit () detects (#) only an optical flow substantially in horizontal direction in an image (P) captured by a camera () (#) and sets (#) a rectangular image portion (Q) containing a region moving in a substantially horizontal direction according to the detected optical flow. A second moving region detection unit () obtains a distribution (profile) of signal values of the set rectangular image portion (Q), (#) in a vertical direction (longitudinal direction). Furthermore, the second moving region detection unit () correlates distributions of signal values of image portions (Q, Q) of two continuous images (P, P) in time series (#) based on dynamic programming based processing to obtain an enlargement rate (#). An approaching object determining unit () determines according to the enlargement rate whether the object is actually approaching.