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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2007
Applicants:
Hideto Fujita, Yao, JP;
Yohei Ishii, Osaka, JP;
Hitoshi Hongo, Shijonawate, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06T 3/00 (2013.01); G06T 3/0018 (2013.01); G06T 5/006 (2013.01); B60R 2300/30 (2013.01); B60R 2300/402 (2013.01); H04N 5/3572 (2013.01);
Abstract
A drive assistance device has an imaging device () mounted on a vehicle body and imaging a region surrounding the vehicle body, lens distortion correction means () for performing lens distortion correction for an inputted image taken by the imaging device (), and a display () for displaying the image obtained by the lens distortion correcting means (). The lens distortion correction means () divides the inputted image into multiple regions and performs lens distortion correction for each of the regions with different distortion correction level.