Image recognizing apparatus and image recognizing method
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorSung joo LEE
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Abstract
An image recognizing apparatus, including: a camera which outputs at least one of a front image and a rear image of a vehicle; a disturbance estimating unit which outputs an image which is estimated as a disturbance according to a visibility of an image; a disturbance classifying unit which outputs a cause of disturbance according to a brightness of a pixel in the disturbance estimated image; a disturbance result determining unit which determines whether the disturbance is generated in the image in accordance with accumulated cause of the disturbance; and an image recognizing unit which informs the driver that the image is not recognized when it is determined that disturbance occurs in the image.
Claims20
An image recognizing apparatus, comprising:
- a camera configured to output at least one of a front image and a rear image of a vehicle;
- an disturbance estimating unit configured to output an image which is estimated as a disturbance according to a visibility of an image output from the camera;
- a disturbance classifying unit configured to output a cause of disturbance according to brightness of pixels in the disturbance estimated image;
- a disturbance result determining unit configured to determine whether the disturbance is generated in the image in accordance with accumulated cause of the disturbance;
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- an image recognizing unit configured to inform the driver that the image is not recognized when it is determined that disturbance occurs in the image.
An image recognizing method, comprising:
- outputting at least one of a front image and a rear image of a vehicle;
- outputting an image which is estimated as a disturbance in according to a visibility of an image;
- outputting a cause of disturbance according to a brightness of a pixel in the disturbance estimated image;
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- outputting different results according to the cause of disturbance to a first buffer and a second buffer to accumulatively store the results.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.