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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2012
Pascal Schuler, Waldkirch, DE;
Dietram Rinklin, Waldkirch, DE;
Ulrich Zwolfer, Waldkirch, DE;
Sick AG, Waldkirch, DE;
Abstract
A camera system () is provided for generating an image presegmented into regions (-) of interest and of no interest, having an evaluation unit () which is designed to divide the raw image into part regions (-) to calculate a contrast value for each part region (-) and to decide with reference to the contrast value whether the respective part region (-) is a region of interest () or a region of no interest (). In this respect, the evaluation unit () has a preprocessing unit () which is implemented on an FPGA, which respectively accesses the pixels of a part region (-) and generates summed values (a), b) for the respective part region (-) and has a structure recognition unit () which calculates the contrast value of the part region (-) from its summed values (a, b) without accessing pixels of the part region (-).