Road surface division mark recognition apparatus, and lane departure prevention apparatus

A road surface division mark recognition apparatus that recognizes a division mark on a road surface, comprising:

• a vehicle-mounted camera that takes an image of the road surface;
• an image processing portion which has a plurality of image processing modes that correspond respectively to a plurality of kinds of road surface division marks, which discerns the kind of the road surface division mark contained in the road surface image taken by the vehicle-mounted camera, which makes it possible to select, from the plurality of image processing modes, one image processing mode that corresponds to the road surface division mark discerned, and which recognizes the road surface division mark in the selected image processing mode;
• a temperature measurement portion that measures temperature of the vehicle-mounted camera;
• and
• a restriction portion that restricts action of the vehicle-mounted camera if the temperature measured by the temperature measurement portion is higher than or equal to a threshold value,
• wherein the threshold value differs among the image processing modes.