Object Recognition Device and Object Recognition Method
AssigneeHitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
InventorsMasahiro Kiyohara, Kota Irie, Naoki Kourogi, Tatsuhiko Monji, Yoshitaka Takahashi, Shoji Muramatsu
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Abstract
An object recognition device includes; an image-capturing unit mounted to a mobile body; an image generation unit that converts images captured by the image-capturing unit at different time points to corresponding synthesized images as seen vertically downwards from above; a detection unit that compares together a plurality of the synthesized images and detects corresponding regions; and a recognition unit that recognizes an object present upon the road surface from a difference between the corresponding regions.
Claims8
An object recognition device, comprising:
- an image-capturing unit mounted to a mobile body;
- an image generation unit that converts images captured by the image-capturing unit at different time points to corresponding synthesized images as seen vertically downwards from above;
- a detection unit that compares together a plurality of the synthesized images and detects corresponding regions;
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- a recognition unit that recognizes an object present upon the road surface from a difference between the corresponding regions.
An object recognition method, comprising:
- a step of converting images captured at different time points to corresponding synthesized images as seen vertically downwards from above;
- a step of comparing together a plurality of the synthesized images and detecting corresponding regions;
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- a step of recognizing an object present upon a road surface from a difference between the corresponding regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.