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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00812 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B62D 15/028 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/6201 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01); B60R 2300/207 (2013.01); B60R 2300/308 (2013.01); B60R 2300/806 (2013.01); B60T 2201/10 (2013.01); G06K 2009/4666 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30241 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30264 (2013.01);
Abstract
A parking assistance system includes: a color/IR detector which detects, from a camera image captured with a camera, marker candidates that are areas in each of which an intensity of a color component or an infrared (IR) component exceeds a threshold; a marker position calculator which calculates positions of the marker candidates in the camera image; and a validity verifier which determines whether the marker candidates are valid as the markers, based on the positions of the marker candidates and a predetermined positional relationship of the markers.