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US 2007/0165967 A1Published application
Object detector
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsTanichi Ando, Ryoji Fujioka
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Abstract
An object detector detects an object with a camera and calculates position data showing its direction and distance. A laser radar obtains an front image and recognizes an identified image in the front image. Coordinates of this identified image are calculated and converted to data indicating direction to the object. The identified image is correlated with the object detected by the laser radar and the correlated object is identified as an identified object. Position data of this correlated object are outputted as data on the identified object.
Claims18
An object detector comprising:
- an object sensor for detecting an object in front of an automobile;
- position data calculating means for calculating position data that show direction and distance of an object detected by said object sensor;
- an image sensor for obtaining a front image in front of said automobile and recognizing an identified image in said front image;
- coordinate calculating means for calculating coordinates of said identified image recognized by said image sensor in said front image;
- a correspondence processing part that converts the coordinates of said identified image calculated by said coordinate calculating means to thereby obtain data indicating direction to said object and to correlate said identified image with the object detected by said object sensor and identifies said correlated object as an identified object;
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- data outputting means for outputting position data of said correlated object as data of the identified object.
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