Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stereo camera
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Application No.: US16466356Application Date: 2017-12-15
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Publication No.: US10659762B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Aoki , Takuma Osato , Takeshi Nagasaki , Naoya Tada
- 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: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@89867ed
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/045034 WO 20171215
- International Announcement: WO2018/123642 WO 20180705
- Main IPC: H04N13/239
- IPC: H04N13/239 ; G06T5/00 ; H04N13/122

Abstract:
The present invention provides a stereo camera in which it is possible to improve the precision of correcting vertical offset between a first image captured by a first image-capture unit and a second image captured by a second image-capture unit. In the present invention, an image-capture system unit 100a captures a benchmark image. An image-capture system unit 100b captures a reference image. A geometry correction unit 125 generates a plurality of geometry-corrected reference images having differing amounts of vertical-direction movement from the reference image. A parallax calculation unit 126 generates a plurality of parallax images from the combination of the benchmark image and each of the reference images. A parallax image evaluation unit 131 calculates evaluation values pertaining to the reliability of each of the parallax images. A vertical offset correction unit 132: calculates, on the basis of a correspondence relationship between vertical offset and the evaluation values pertaining to reliability, an evaluation value pertaining to the maximum reliability and a vertical offset that corresponds to this evaluation value; and sets the vertical offset that corresponds to the evaluation value pertaining to the maximum reliability as a vertical offset correction amount.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200068186A1 STEREO CAMERA Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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