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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuichi Nakanishi, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00825 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle recognition devicehas a characteristic region identifying unitthat identifies two characteristic regionsarranged in a horizontal direction in an imagefrom an imaging unit, and a region outer end identifying unitthat identities outer endsin the horizontal direction of the two characteristic regions. The region outer end identifying unitidentifies a corrected outer endin the case where the difference in width in the horizontal direction between the two characteristic regionsis not a predetermined value or less.