Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stereo camera
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Application No.: US14410619Application Date: 2013-06-03
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Publication No.: US10554945B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Akira Oshima , Haruki Matono , Hiroto Mitoma , Ryo Ota , Shinya Ohtsuji
- Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2012-144906 20120628
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/065309 WO 20130603
- International Announcement: WO2014/002692 WO 20140103
- Main IPC: H04N13/106
- IPC: H04N13/106 ; H04N13/243 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T5/40

Abstract:
In order to provide a small, stereo camera with stable errors of distance measurement, there are provided: an image acquisition unit that acquires plural images imaged by plural imaging units; a first region processing unit that divides each of the plural images acquired by the image acquisition unit into first regions composed of predetermined plural pixels, and measures a distance for each of the divided first regions to generate a first distance image; a target object extraction unit that extracts a target object from the distance image or the image, and extracts a second region composed of the plural first regions including the extracted target object; an error factor identification unit that extracts a predetermined representative value from the inside of the second region, compares the brightness value of an arbitrary pixel in the second region with that in a correspondence region up to the position moved from the arbitrary pixel by a disparity represented by the representative value, and determines an error factor on the basis of the comparison result; and a second region processing unit that determines a weight value on the basis of the error factor, and measures a distance for each second region using the weight value to generate a second distance image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150145963A1 Stereo Camera Public/Granted day:2015-05-28
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