Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Object detection device and navigation device
- Patent Title (中): 物体检测装置和导航装置
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Application No.: US13981920Application Date: 2011-12-27
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Publication No.: US08666656B2Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Takashi Mikami , Takashi Hirano , Marika Niiyama
- Applicant: Takashi Mikami , Takashi Hirano , Marika Niiyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-047694 20110304
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/007310 WO 20111227
- International Announcement: WO2012/120583 WO 20120913
- Main IPC: G08G1/16
- IPC: G08G1/16

Abstract:
An object detection device includes: an ultrasonic sensor for transmitting a signal and further receiving reflected signals of the transmitted signal; a delay-sum processing unit for generating two-dimensional distance information in which the reflected signals received by the ultrasonic sensor are delay-summed in a plurality of reference planes set in advance; a distance information integration unit for generating integrated distance information in which the two-dimensional distance information in the plurality of reference planes generated by the delay-sum processing unit is summed in a vertical direction to the reference planes; and an object detection unit for detecting an object at a position where an intensity in the vertical direction is equal to or larger than a threshold value by referring to an intensity in the vertical direction of the integrated distance information generated by the distance information integration unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130311083A1 OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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