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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shunichiro Nonaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yuko Matsui, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00805 (2013.01); G06K 9/3241 (2013.01); G06T 7/0051 (2013.01); G06T 7/602 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract
The distance to a target vehicle is calculated. To achieve this, a target vehicle traveling ahead is imaged and it is determined to what vehicle group, such as a light-duty vehicle group, standard passenger car group or heavy-duty vehicle group, the image of the target vehicle belongs. Representative vehicle widths are stored in a vehicle group table on a per-vehicle-group basis. The distance from one's own vehicle to a target vehicle is calculated using the vehicle width that corresponds to the vehicle group decided.