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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2013
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
To provide an object detection device and an object detection method in which incorrect grouping based on a range image can be prevented, processing is implemented including: generating a range image based on a pair of gray-scaled images (S); grouping adjacent regions having range data representing close distances in the range image (S); calculating differences between the luminance values of pixels in a vertical line below a ground plane above which objects are imaged and the luminance values of pixels in a vertical line above the ground plane in the gray-scaled images and dividing the group region into laterally separated sub-regions (S); and determining whether or not there is a section without vertical edge in either of the left and right areas of each of sub-regions made based on the gray-scaled images and merging sub-regions whose areas including a section without vertical edge are next to each other (S).