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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189870 | Process for the automatic calculation of the coefficient of a slope about to be ascended by a motor vehicle and an associated device The present invention relates to a process for the automatic determination of the coefficient of a slope from a motor vehicle fitted with a camera. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189871 | Vision system for vehicle A vision system for a vehicle includes an imaging device having an imaging sensor with a field of view exterior the vehicle, a camera controller, a display device and a display controller. The display device is operable to display information for viewing by a driver... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184859 | Road marking recognition apparatus and method An object of this invention is to provide a technique to correctly recognize road markings by a simple processing. This road marking recognition method: obtaining image data of a road, and storing the image data into an image data storage; detecting a first road mar... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184861 | Feature information management apparatuses, methods, and programs Apparatuses, methods and programs store a plurality of target types, each target type having recognition attribute information indicating the likelihood that the target type will be recognized based on a type of road or a type of area. The apparatuses, methods and p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184860 | Image processing device for controlling a plurality of tasks An image processing device of the present invention performs a task to execute an image processing This image processing device comprises a picture frame assigning unit that assigns an identification number to the image data to be collected by a picture collection d... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180109 | Image display apparatus and image display system for vehicle If a display mode is set to a narrow angle enlargement image mode, an enlargement image area is inputted via a touch panel. A transformation is made to compress an image of a not-enlargement image area other than the enlargement image area, and a narrow angle enlarg... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180110 | Road lane marker detection apparatus and road lane marker detection method A road lane marker detection apparatus includes an imaging portion that captures an image of the road surface such that a first road lane marker and a second road lane marker are captured in the image; a feature point obtaining portion that obtains feature points of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180108 | Method for determining the distance of visibility for a driver of a vehicle A method for determining the distance of visibility for a driver of a vehicle in the presence of an element disrupting the visibility of the driver, the method comprising the following steps: determining the luminosity of the pixels of a region of an image taken in ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175806 | Car navigation system To improve recognition accuracy of a traveling direction of a vehicle by accurately detecting a marking on a road surface which is photographed by a camera while a road environment where a vehicle travels is changing. A car navigation system 100 detects an im... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170286 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing system An image processing apparatus includes an input portion for entering an image signal from a camera, an exposure timing determination portion for determining exposure timing of the camera according to an object to be detected, an output portion for outputting a signa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170284 | Apparatus and method for displaying image of view in front of vehicle An apparatus and a method for displaying an image of a view in front of a vehicle, each of which detects edges in a monochrome image obtained by a camera, which is mounted on the vehicle and photographs a view in front of the vehicle, to generate an edge image indic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170285 | Systems and methods of vehicle image processing An image processing system and the like capable of recognizing a lane mark in a road image with high accuracy are provided even if a light illumination state on a road surface is partially different. According to the image processing system (100) mounted on a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160300 | Pedestrian detecting apparatus A first pedestrian judging unit judges, on the basis of the size and motion state of a target three-dimensional object, whether the object is a pedestrian. A second pedestrian judging unit judges, on the basis of shape data on the object, whether the object is a ped... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155385 | Image-processing system and image-processing method A vehicle-periphery-image-providing system may include an image-capturing unit, a viewpoint-change unit, an image-composition unit, an object-decttion unit, a line-width-setting unit, and a line-selection unit. The image-capturing units, such as cameras, capture ima... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155384 | System and method for automatic exterior and interior inspection of vehicles A system and method for automatic exterior and interior inspection of vehicles. The system comprises imaging means for capturing an image of the undercarriage of the vehicle as it is being driven into a secure area; imaging means for capturing an image of a luggage ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150105 | Inspection using three-dimensional profile information A three-dimensional profile of at least a portion of an object, such as a vehicle, is generated using image data corresponding to the object. The image data can be acquired as the object passes an inspection location and can be enhanced using emitted electromagnetic... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139821 | Vehicle periphery monitoring device A vehicle periphery monitoring device includes: a parallax calculating unit which extracts a first image section that contains a target object in real space from a first image imaged by a first imaging unit at a predetermined time and extracts a second image section... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139820 | Discretization facilities for vehicle event data recorders Exception event recorders and analysis systems include: vehicle mounted sensors arranged as a vehicle event recorder to capture both discrete and non-discrete data; a discretization facility; a database; and an analysis server all coupled together as a computer netw... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135175 | Vehicle, image processing system image processing method, image processing program, method for configuring image processing system, and server An image processing system and the like capable of accurately recognizing lane edges defined by dotted lane marks are provided. According to an image processing system (100) of the present invention, a first processing unit (110) searches a road surfac... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131018 | Object detection and recognition system An object recognition system is provided including at least one image capturing device configured to capture at least one image, wherein the image includes a plurality of pixels and is represented in an image data set, an object detection device configured to identi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131017 | Automatic illuminating system for a contactlessly measuring automobile service device Automatic illuminating and image recording system for an automobile service device, combined illuminating and image recording unit and method for automatic measured value-dependent setting of the image recording and exposure for an automobile service device having c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126209 | Road image analyzing apparatus and road image analyzing method In a road image analyzing apparatus capable of obviously and rapidly distinguishing a road marking from a guardrail and capable of obtaining precise position information, a pre-processing unit defines sub-areas to main image data obtained by an image pickup unit, an... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121350 | Apparatus, method and computer program for determining a position on the basis of a camera image from a camera An apparatus for determining a position on the basis of a camera image from a camera includes a Hough transformer, a positional description establisher and a database comparator. The Hough transformer is formed to identify circular arcs or elliptical arcs in the cam... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116529 | Populating fleet maintenance data using 2D feature recognition Methods and systems for populating fleet maintenance data using 2D feature recognition are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of determining a configuration of a vehicle includes surveying the vehicle using an imaging device to generate 2D imagery of a configura... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116528 | Illumination source for an image based occupant classification system and vehicle using same An image based occupant classification system includes a supplemental restraint system, an image sensor, and an illumination source. The image sensor is in communication with the supplemental restraint system and is configured to monitor vehicular conditions. The il... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107683 | Method and system for in-vehicle image processing An image processing system and the like capable of improving recognition accuracy of a lane mark are provided. According to the image processing system of the present invention, a first processing unit (110) recognizes a lane mark candidate on the basis of th... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098894 | Mobile imaging device as navigator Embodiments of the invention are directed to obtaining information based on directional orientation of a mobile imaging device, such as a camera phone. Visual information is gathered by the camera and used to determine a directional orientation of the camera, to sea... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098895 | Lane marker recognition apparatus and lane marker recognition method used by said apparatus A lane marker recognition apparatus which recognizes a lane marker based on a captured image of a road surface in the direction in which a vehicle is traveling, includes recognizing means for recognizing at least one left lane marker and at least one right lane mark... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090151 | Face feature point detection apparatus and method of the same An image input unit configured to enter a face image, a search area and scale setting unit configured to set a search area and a scale, an image feature point detection unit configured to detect image feature points selected from local image information of respectiv... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090152 | Road lane boundary detection system and road lane boundary detecting method A road lane boundary detection system includes a detection region setting unit that sets a certain region in a road image, as a target detection region to be searched for detection of a road lane boundary, and a detecting unit that processes image data in the target... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090153 | Imaging system for vehicle An imaging system for a vehicle includes a camera having a field of view exterior of a vehicle with the field of view being in a forward direction of travel of the vehicle. The camera is operable to capture image data and an image processor is operable to process th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085984 | Image recognizing apparatus and method, and position determining apparatus, vehicle controlling apparatus and navigation apparatus using the image recognizing apparatus or method There is provided e.g. an image recognizing apparatus which can increase the recognition rate of the image of a recognition target even when the recognition rate in the image recognition operation would deteriorate otherwise due to inability of obtaining good image ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081801 | Device and method for controlling streetlights A method for controlling streetlights located at a streetlight control area using a streetlight power control system controls an image capturing device to capture digital images of at least one route section of the streetlight control area at a predetermined interva... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081800 | Detection device of vehicle interior condition A detection system of vehicle interior condition includes an illumination unit for illuminating a plurality of mutually different illumination regions including at least one seat of a vehicle and a surrounding region thereof so as to have different illumination time... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077921 | Apparatus for determining the presence of fog using image obtained by vehicle-mounted imaging device An apparatus that determines the presence of an element such as fog interfering with the visibility of a frontal view of an driver in an vehicle in an environmental atmosphere in ahead of the vehicle equipped with the apparatus in the daytime is provided. In this ap... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064643 | Detecting and recognizing traffic signs A method for detecting and identifying a traffic sign in a computerized system mounted on a moving vehicle. The system includes a camera mounted on the moving vehicle. The camera captures in real time multiple image frames of the environment in the field of view of ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059867 | Detection system, informing system, actuation system and vehicle A detection system is provided for easily detecting information about respective objects seated on a plurality of vehicle seats. An occupant information detection apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed which, in one form, comprises a single photographing section capab... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055023 | Vehicle cabin lighting apparatus A plurality of lighting units are positioned forwardly of the driver seat in the cabin of a vehicle for applying infrared radiations in respective directions to the vehicle driver seated on the driver seat. The intensities of the emitted infrared radiations are cont... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050458 | Frontal view imaging and control device installed on movable object A frontal view imaging and control device installed on a movable object, includes: an image input unit receiving an image taken by an image device that captures a region of a road surface in a predetermined direction; a projection transformation unit linking each pi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050459 | System and method for detecting pedestrians A method is provided for detecting a pedestrian exterior to a vehicle by use of a vehicle-mounted image-based monitoring system. An edge-based pedestrian detection analysis is applied to the input image data to determine an edge-based confidence value of a candidate... | 11/01/2011 |
