Method, in-vehicle apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMitsuhiro MIURA, Yoshiaki TOMATSU
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Abstract
A method performed by an in-vehicle apparatus includes setting, in video captured by an imager, a first area and a second area in front of a door in an interior of a vehicle, extracting one or more passengers and one or more objects from the video using an image analysis technique, and causing an opening and closing operation of the door to stop, upon detecting, in the video, a passenger present in the first area and/or an object present in the second area.
Claims20
A method performed by an in-vehicle apparatus comprising an imager configured to image an interior of a vehicle, and a controller, the method comprising:
- setting, by the controller, in video captured by the imager, a first area and a second area in front of a door in the interior of the vehicle;
- extracting, by the controller, one or more passengers and one or more objects from the video using an image analysis technique;
- and
- causing, by the controller, an opening and closing operation of the door to stop, upon detecting, in the video, a passenger present in the first area and/or an object present in the second area.
An in-vehicle apparatus comprising:
- an imager configured to image an interior of a vehicle;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- set, in video captured by the imager, a first area and a second area in front of a door in the interior of the vehicle;
- extract one or more passengers and one or more objects from the video using an image analysis technique;
- and
- cause an opening and closing operation of the door to stop, upon detecting, in the video, a passenger present in the first area and/or an object present in the second area.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program configured to cause a computer, as an in-vehicle apparatus comprising an imager configured to image an interior of a vehicle, and a controller, to execute operations, the operations comprising:
- setting, in video captured by the imager, a first area and a second area in front of a door in the interior of the vehicle;
- extracting one or more passengers and one or more objects from the video using an image analysis technique;
- and
- causing an opening and closing operation of the door to stop, upon detecting, in the video, a passenger present in the first area and/or an object present in the second area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.