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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Akira Mizutani, Utsunomiya, JP;
Douglas A. Brooks, San Antonio, TX (US);
David R. Chambers, San Antonio, TX (US);
Edmond M. Dupont, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00825 (2013.01); G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06K 9/2054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surrounding environment recognition device includes an image capturing unit that captures a peripheral image, and a traffic signal detecting unit, which sets a search region with respect to the peripheral image, and detects a traffic signal inside of the search region. The search region becomes smaller as the distance from the image capturing unit is farther away.