Apparatus for monitoring surroundings of vehicle and method of calibrating the same
AssigneesDenso Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Ricoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsToshihiko TERADA, Masaki KUWAHARA, Hiroaki ITO, Naohide UCHIDA, Jun KISHIWADA
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Abstract
In an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imagers through a windshield of the vehicle, an image acquirer is configured to acquire the plurality of images captured by the plurality of imagers, and a distortion corrector is configured to correct the plurality of images based on an optical distortion distribution of the windshield.
Claims5
An apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imagers through a windshield of the vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- an image acquirer configured to acquire the plurality of images captured by the plurality of imagers;
- and
- a distortion corrector configured to correct the plurality of images based on an optical distortion distribution of the windshield.
A method of calibrating an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imagers through a windshield of the vehicle, the method comprising:
- acquiring the plurality of images captured by the plurality of imagers;
- and
- correcting the plurality of images based on an optical distortion distribution of the windshield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.