Raindrop detection device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKEIGO HIKIDA, TAKAMITSU OKURA, KIYOSHI OTSUKA, YOSHIHISA BANNO, KAZUMASA NAKAJIMA, MASAAKI INOGUCHI
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Abstract
A raindrop detection device includes: a front monitoring camera for photographing a front of a vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle; a raindrop detection camera for photographing a raindrop adhering to the windshield; and an electronic control unit disposed away from the windshield, the front monitoring camera, and the raindrop detection camera, performing an image processing on an image data of a front image from the front monitoring camera, and performing an image processing on an image data of a windshield image from the raindrop detection camera.
Claims21
A raindrop detection device comprising:
- a front monitoring camera for photographing a front of a vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle;
- a raindrop detection camera for photographing a raindrop adhering to the windshield;
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- an electronic control unit disposed away from the windshield, the front monitoring camera, and the raindrop detection camera, performing an image processing on an image data of a front image from the front monitoring camera, and performing an image processing on an image data of a windshield image from the raindrop detection camera, wherein:
- the image data of the front image and the image data of the windshield image are output to the electronic control unit via a common signal line;
- the raindrop detection camera has a humidity sensor that detects humidity and temperature of a vehicle compartment of the vehicle;
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- information about the humidity and the temperature detected by the humidity sensor is output to the electronic control unit by being superimposed on the common signal line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.