Vehicle control system and image sensor

A vehicle control system, comprising:

• a receiver section which has a plurality of filters having different pass bands, and a plurality of receiving elements, each of which receives electromagnetic waves via any one of the filters;
• a scan data generation section which, when receiving general scan data which is an output of the receiver section, extracts outputs of the receiving elements correlated to the filters to generate discrete scan data, which is scan data for each of the filters;
• a scan data processing section which detects, based on the discrete scan data generated by the scan data generation section or composite scan data generated by combining the discrete scan data, at least one object included in a group of an obstacle, a preceding vehicle, a preceding pedestrian, a preceding object, a stationary vehicle, a stationary pedestrian, a stationary object, an on-coming vehicle, an on-coming pedestrian, an on-coming object, a lane, a road surface condition, a road shape, a light source, a road sign, a traffic signal, an entity which cuts off a field of view of the light-receiving section, and an environmental feature outside a vehicle;
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• a vehicle control section which performs, according to the object detected by the image data processing section, vehicle control regarding at least one of collision avoidance, speed warning, lane departure prevention, rear-end collision warning, inter-vehicle warning, lane departure warning, auto high beam, sign indication, full speed range adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, lane change accident prevention, blind spot warning, blind spot monitoring, automatic lane change, forward cross traffic warning, rearward cross traffic warning, erroneous pedal usage prevention, and automatic parking.

A vehicle control system, comprising:

• a light-receiving section which has a plurality of filters having different pass bands, and a plurality of light-receiving elements, each of which receives incident light via any one of the filters;
• an image data generation section which, when receiving general image data which is an output of the light-receiving section, extracts outputs of the light-receiving elements correlated to the filters of the light-receiving section to generate discrete image data, which is image data for each of the filters;
• a receiver section which has a plurality of filters having different pass bands, and a plurality of receiving elements, each of which receives electromagnetic waves via any one of the filters;
• a scan data generation section which, when receiving general scan data which is an output of the receiver section, extracts outputs of the receiving elements correlated to the filters of the receiver section to generate discrete scan data, which is scan data for each of the filters;
• an image data processing section which detects, based on the discrete image data generated by the image data generation section or composite image data generated by combining the discrete image data, and the discrete scan data generated by the scan data generation section or composite scan data generated by combining the discrete scan data, at least one object included in a group of an obstacle, a preceding vehicle, a preceding pedestrian, a preceding object, a stationary vehicle, a stationary pedestrian, a stationary object, an on-coming vehicle, an on-coming pedestrian, an on-coming object, a lane, a road surface condition, a road shape, a light source, a road sign, a traffic signal, an entity which cuts off a field of view of the light-receiving section or the receiver section, and an environmental feature outside a vehicle;
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• a vehicle control section which performs, according to the object detected by the image data processing section, vehicle control regarding at least one of collision avoidance, speed warning, lane departure prevention, rear-end collision warning, inter-vehicle warning, lane departure warning, auto high beam, sign indication, full speed range adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, lane change accident prevention, blind spot warning, blind spot monitoring, automatic lane change, forward cross traffic warning, rearward cross traffic warning, erroneous pedal usage prevention, and automatic parking.