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Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroaki Ito, Susono, JP;

Fumio Sugaya, Susono, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/076 (2012.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/076 (2013.01); G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); H04N 13/0007 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10021 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30256 (2013.01);
Abstract

A road surface gradient detection device is provided. The road surface gradient detection device includes an image area setting unit configured to divide a captured image to set a plurality of image areas, a weighting setting unit configured to set the weighting of the pixel range, a representative height calculation unit configured to calculate the representative parallax of each image area and the representative height of each image area based on the parallax of each pixel range, the coordinates of each pixel range, and a magnitude of the weighting of each pixel range, and a road surface gradient detection unit configured to detect the road surface gradient from the captured image based on the representative parallax of each image area and the representative height of each image area.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Ito, Hiroaki. (2017). Road surface gradient detection device (U.S. Patent No. 9771080). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9771080

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