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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Haike Guan, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Haike Guan, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06T 7/0048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract
A target point arrival detector for detecting that a vehicle arrives at a target point based on an image ahead of the vehicle moving on a surface captured by an image capturing unit includes a target point arrival signal output unit, using a processing circuit, to output a signal indicating that the vehicle arrives at the target point where an inclination condition of a surface ahead of the vehicle with respect to a surface over which the vehicle moves changes to a downward based on the captured image.