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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2015
Mando Corporation, Pyeongtaek-si, KR;
Yun Hee Lee, Seoul, KR;
MANDO CORPORATION, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for recognizing a lane-changing vehicle through recognition of an adjacent lane, the apparatus including: an image acquisition unit configured to photograph front and surrounding images of an ego-vehicle; a travel lane recognition unit configured to recognize a travel lane of the ego-vehicle; an adjacent lane recognition unit configured to recognize an adjacent lane; a vehicle information database configured to classify and store vehicle data and non-vehicle data; a vehicle recognition unit configured to extract a lane candidate group by recognizing a vertical edge and a horizontal edge, to train vehicle data and non-vehicle data, and then to recognize whether the extracted lane candidate group corresponds to a vehicle or a non-vehicle; and a control unit configured to warn a collision danger when a counterpart vehicle approaches a lane to which the ego-vehicle is to make a change.