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6906620 Obstacle detection device and method therefor  
Provided is a technology for helping safe driving and realizing automatic driving of vehicles, or for counting the number of passing vehicles on the road or monitoring those passing vehicles for...
6898495 Parking assist system  
A parking assist system for a driver to confirm a relationship between relative positions to obstacles and one's own vehicle. A top plane creating image 7 B in which a circumstance situation of...
6898298 Installing posture parameter auto extracting method of imaging device, and monitoring system using the imaging device  
A monitoring system using an imaging device like a TV camera, etc. enhances a monitoring accuracy without involving manual operations and increasing costs for installing the monitoring system. Two...
6895332 GPS-based vehicle warning and location system and method  
An emergency vehicle alert system includes a first GPS receiving unit provided on the emergency vehicle that determines emergency vehicle location information of the emergency vehicle; a...
6888953 Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus  
Distance image outputted from an image processor is read by a recognition/judgment computer, in which the distance image is divided into strips having a specified interval and a histogram is...
6885939 System and method for advanced 3D visualization for mobile navigation units  
A system providing three-dimensional visual navigation for a mobile unit includes a location calculation unit for calculating an instantaneous position of the mobile unit, a viewpoint control unit...
6882738 Methods and tangible objects employing textured machine readable data  
A tangible object (such as a microprocessor, wristwatch, pharmaceutical, compact disc, vehicle part, etc) is surface-textured to encode a plural-bit code thereon. In one arrangement, this encoding...
6879706 Apparatus and method for detecting traffic lane mark for automotive vehicle  
In apparatus and method for detecting a traffic lane mark for an automotive vehicle, a plurality of traffic lane detection windows are set in a manner for the traffic lane to be included in each...
6868168 Lane recognition system for vehicle  
A lane recognition system for a vehicle is comprised of a camera set, a memory and a controller connected to the camera set and the memory. The camera set picks up a road image of a road ahead of...
6859144 Vehicle situation alert system with eye gaze controlled alert signal generation  
A system responds to detection of a vehicle situation by comparing a sensed eye gaze direction of the vehicle operator with data stored in memory. The stored data defines a first predetermined...
6850628 Lane recognition apparatus for vehicle  
A lane recognition apparatus for a vehicle is comprised of a camera and a processor. The camera is installed to the vehicle and picks up a road image ahead of the vehicle. The processor is coupled...
6850629 Image processing method for preventing lane deviation  
An image processing method comprises the steps of generating a road image by photographing a road on which a vehicle is traveling; performing a brightness averaging process of the road image;...
6847894 Vehicle control system, program and method  
A vehicle control system captures an external image from the primary vehicle and stores templates for detecting the approach of the another vehicle in order to perform a collision avoidance action....
6847727 Infrared monitoring system having variable assignment of grey scale values  
A monitoring system suitable for a vehicle has a display which displays an image of the road area traveled by the vehicle. The system further comprises a controller which is capable of allocating...
6845172 Road lane marker recognition  
A road recognition apparatus estimates road parameters of a road model equation by processing a forward road image of a vehicle. A processor sets a series of windows along a road white line (or...
6842531 Vehicle area detecting apparatus and vehicle area determining method  
A vehicle area detector correctly detects a vehicle area. The vehicle area detector detects a vehicle area in a vehicle candidate area having a high probability of existence of a vehicle in an...
6829388 System of detecting road white line, method for detecting road white line and storage medium storing program for detecting road white line  
A system and method are provided which are capable of reliably and effectively detecting a white line in an upper region of a road image by dividing the road image into, at least, two regions...
6819780 Method and apparatus for automatically steering a vehicle in an agricultural field using a plurality of fuzzy logic membership functions  
A combine having a camera system is disclosed in which pictures of the ground in front of the vehicle are processed to extract the slope and intercept of a characteristic line indicative of the...
6819779 Lane detection system and apparatus  
A method of detecting a road lane in an electronically stored image. An image acquisition device acquires an image of a road lane environment and stores the image as an array of pixels. An edge...
6813370 Lane marker recognizing apparatus  
A lane recognition apparatus for recognizing lane markers on a road surface based on a pair of stereo images of a scene in front of an own vehicle obtained from a stereoscopic camera, includes a...
6813371 On-vehicle camera calibration device  
An on-vehicle camera calibration device is provided and a method of calibrating an on-vehicle camera easily is carried out by using a calibration indicator other than a three dimensional one. The...
6813545 Automatic traffic sign recognition  
The invention concerns a system for reminding a driver of the presence of at least one particular traffic sign, comprising: an imaging unit ( 1 ) attached to the vehicle and directed towards the...
6813383 Linear mark detecting method and device  
Only points on a linear mark image is detected as linear mark characteristic points without influence of surrounding structures and noise, so that reliability is improved on detecting a linear...
6810133 Occupant sensing system and method via imaging  
An occupant sensing system ( 12 ) and an associated method provide for the sensing of an occupant ( 14 ). An illuminating element ( 46 ) of the system ( 12 )selectively illuminates the interior of...
6810132 Traffic monitoring apparatus  
A traffic monitoring apparatus that is used to reliably detect the occurrence of an abnormal situation, such as a traffic accident. An imaging device produces and outputs images of a point to be...
6807511 Aircraft identification and docking guidance systems  
A laser range finder (LRF) is used to identify an aircraft approaching a gate. The LRF is directed at the aircraft, and from the echoes, a profile is derived and compared to known profiles. To...
RE38626 Parking regulation enforcement system  
A video camera mounted on a parking enforcement patrol vehicle and connected to a computer near the operator. The system is driven along a patrol route where parked vehicles are governed by a...
6807287 Road profile prediction  
An apparatus for road profile prediction comprises digitization and storage means operable to digitize and store video image data relating to the road ahead of the vehicle and processor means...
6801638 Device and method for recognizing traffic signs  
The invention concerns a process and a device, which make it possible to reliably, with the least amount of computing power, recognize traffic signs and to display these as memory aids for an...
6801662 Sensor fusion architecture for vision-based occupant detection  
A vision-based system for automatically detecting the type of object within a specified area, such as the type of occupant within a vehicle. Determination of the type of occupant can then be used...
6785404 Image positional relation correction apparatus, steering supporting apparatus provided with the image positional relation correction apparatus, and image positional relation correction method  
An image positional relation apparatus is provided, in which coordinate data of a real targed photographed by a CCD camera and coordinate data of a virtual target logically calculated from the...
6785403 Method and system for inspecting a vehicle-mounted camera  
An optical axis direction, a distance measurement accuracy and so on are efficiently performed for quality assurance of a vehicle-mounted camera in cooperation of an image processing unit and a...
6774988 Light source detection and categorization system for automatic vehicle exterior light control and method of manufacturing  
The optical system of the present invention includes a lens system assembly, a spectral filter material and a pixel array configured such that small, distant, light sources can be reliably...
6765480 Monocular computer vision aided road vehicle driving for safety  
The present invention is a monocular computer vision technique. The technique is used to aid road vehicle driving for safety. An camera (e.g., camera or TV camera or camcorder) is installed in a...
6763125 Image recognition apparatus and image processing apparatus  
In an image recognition apparatus, a left camera and a right camera are provided so as to produce a parallax. A road surface indication recognizing section recognizes road surface indications...
6762694 Centerline identification in a docking guidance system  
The present invention achieves an accurate and quick centerline identification in a docking guidance system and further a verification of a centerline configuration. Heretofore, it is proposed to...
6760061 Traffic sensor  
A traffic sensor system for detecting and tracking vehicles is describede. A video camera is employed to obtain a video image of a section of a roadway. Motion is detected through changes in...
6757571 System and process for bootstrap initialization of vision-based tracking systems  
The present invention is embodied in a system and process for automatically learning a reliable tracking system. The tracking system is learned by using information produced by an initial object...
6753902 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, navigation apparatus, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave  
An image processing apparatus is provided with: an image taking device ( 19 ) for taking an image in a forward direction of a movable body and outputting an image signal corresponding to the taken...
6747687 System for recognizing the same vehicle at different times and places  
In a vehicle time-of-entry and time-of-exit system, the passing of a vehicle through an entrance generates a “trigger-t 0 ” signal. An entrance video camera provides realtime images of entering...
6744908 Traffic density analysis apparatus based on encoded video  
A traffic density analysis apparatus includes a video decoder configured to decode encoded video data obtained by encoding a video signal corresponding to an analysis region and to output a decoded...
6738088 Method and device for simultaneous enhancing safety of driving and security of drivers  
The method and device help avoid traffic accidents and violations through significant enhancing safety and convenience of driving by providing a far better rear and side observation including in...
6734787 Apparatus and method of recognizing vehicle travelling behind  
Images of objects existing behind a first vehicle are detected to obtain distance data on the objects in relation to the first vehicle for recognizing one of the objects as a second vehicle...
6728392 Shape comparison using a rotational variation metric and applications thereof  
A method for comparing geometric shapes to each other is disclosed. The method includes determination of a rotational variation metric. The shapes to be compared are scaled so that their lengths...
6724917 Control apparatus for ventilating a tunnel  
A control apparatus for a ventilator that ventilates a tunnel in response to visibility of the inside of the tunnel, including at least one picture image input device configured to take a picture...
6725139 Steerable night vision system  
A night vision system for a vehicle includes a vehicle directional sensor generating a vehicle directional signal when the vehicle is changing bearing. A night vision camera generates a camera...
6714662 Method and apparatus for determining the quality of an image of an agricultural field using a plurality of fuzzy logic input membership functions  
A combine having a camera system is disclosed in which pictures of the ground in front of the vehicle are processed to extract the slope and intercept of a characteristic line indicative of the...
6704434 Vehicle driving information storage apparatus and vehicle driving information storage method  
The present invention provides a vehicle driving information storage apparatus capable of preserving condition changes of inside and outside of a vehicle and a driver as synchronized images. Inside...
6704621 System and method for estimating ego-motion of a moving vehicle using successive images recorded along the vehicle's path of motion  
An ego-motion determination system is disclosed for generating an estimate as to the ego-motion of a vehicle moving along a roadway. The ego-motion determination system includes an image...
6694251 Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus including: moving image data storing means for storing moving image data; degree of importance setting means for setting the...
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