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6658137 |
Road sensor system
A road sensor system is provided which comprises at least one imaging sensor, an extraction means that captures brightness values for a plurality of windows corresponding to the area immediately in...
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6654482 |
Method and device for locating and guiding a mobile unit equipped with a linear camera
The method for locating a mobile unit relatively to an intermittent lighted beacon consists in calculating, on the basis of data concerning the mobile movement, the position of the discrete...
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6650775 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a streaming two-dimensional digital image segmentation
A method and apparatus for implementing a streaming two-dimensional digital image segmentation is provided. The image segmentation method is compatible with architectures for scan-line processing...
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6636257 |
Mobile body recognizing apparatus and motor vehicle monitoring apparatus
A given visual field is divided into a plurality of areas, and brightness information in the areas is detected at predetermined time intervals and stored as information of a mobile body in a memory...
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6628804 |
Method and apparatus for measuring speed of vehicle
A method for measuring the speed of a vehicle which enables measurement of the speed of a vehicle with a high accuracy by an image pickup camera mounted to a single simple supporting pole installed...
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6625300 |
Car sensing method and car sensing apparatus
Disclosed are a car sensing method and a car sensing apparatus, which are cable of sensing a car surely in spite of an image with poor contrast. Image inputting means photographs a rear portion of...
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6608559 |
Danger warning and emergency response system and method
Surveillance platforms detect dangers and transmit information signals describing the dangers to a control center, which determines the degree of danger and its geographic extent. The center...
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6608913 |
Self-contained mapping and positioning system utilizing point cloud data
A self-contained mapping and positioning system for underground mining is provided that is capable of mapping the topography of a region, such as a mine tunnel, and further being able to use the...
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6594583 |
Side-monitoring apparatus for motor vehicle
An image pick-up means mounted in the motor vehicle picks up a side direction of a driver's own vehicle. An approaching object detecting means detects an approaching degree of an approaching object...
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6591000 |
Apparatus and method for preprocessing a picked-up image, lane mark recognizing system, related vehicle traveling control system, and recording media
An image filter 1 produces an emphasized output in response to a brightness change between a dark portion and a bright portion of a picked-up image, with a sign of the emphasized output reversing...
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6587779 |
Traffic surveillance method and vehicle flow control in a road network
In a method for monitoring and controlling traffic states in a road traffic system current or predicted traffic states are determined for one or more points and a distinction is made between the...
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6571161 |
Pre-crash assessment of crash severity for road vehicles
A method of pre-crash prediction of the severity of an imminent crash of road vehicles is disclosed using a pre-crash sensor, a computer system coupled with pre-crash vehicle condition signal...
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6555804 |
Method and device for detecting objects on a windshield
The invention relates to a method and device for detecting objects ( 3 ) on a windshield ( 2 ). The method comprises the following steps: Placing an optical sensor array ( 4 ) on the inner side of...
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6556692 |
Image-processing method and apparatus for recognizing objects in traffic
An image-processing method, and an apparatus for carrying out the method, that is used particularly for detecting and recognizing objects in traffic. Locally-softened feature images of an image...
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6549642 |
Method and system for detecting road area
In a system for recognizing the environment around a vehicle with an image, to provide a system and method of detecting a road area without lowering the accuracy over the entire of the road area...
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6546118 |
Image processing apparatus for vehicle
An image processing device for a vehicle according to the present invention has an edge extractor for emphasizing edges of a traffic lane in a front road image signal generated by a digital image...
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6546119 |
Automated traffic violation monitoring and reporting system
A system for monitoring and reporting incidences of traffic violations at a traffic location is disclosed. The system comprises a digital camera system deployed at a traffic location. The camera...
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6539288 |
Vehicle rendering device for generating image for drive assistance
In a rendering device, a processor receives surrounding images from image capture devices placed in a vehicle, and based thereon, generates a vehicle overlaid image. The processor also receives a...
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6531959 |
Position detecting device
A position detecting device for a vehicle detects the position of an object in a real space coordinate system. A plurality of objects are extracted from an image obtained by cameras, and a...
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6496593 |
Optical muzzle blast detection and counterfire targeting system and method
A system for remote detection of muzzle blasts produced by rifles, artillery and other weapons, and similar explosive events. The system includes an infrared camera, image processing circuits,...
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6493458 |
Local positioning apparatus, and method therefor
An apparatus and method for correctly determining the position of a vehicle in a traffic lane by obtaining correct information about the position of the traffic lane without being affected by...
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6466684 |
Environment monitoring system
In an environment monitoring system using an optical flow, a monitoring region is set in one's own vehicle lane or an adjacent lane on the basis of the white lines. In this case, an early image is...
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6453056 |
Method and apparatus for generating a database of road sign images and positions
A method and apparatus for automatically generating a database of road sign images and positions where the road signs are identified from video images depicting roadside scenes that are recorded...
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6449383 |
Lane mark recognition system and vehicle traveling control system using the same
A lane mark recognition apparatus for a vehicle is provided which recognizes a lane mark printed on a road using an image of a frontal view captured by a CCD camera. The apparatus identifies a...
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6449384 |
Method and apparatus for rapidly determining whether a digitized image frame contains an object of interest
The present invention relates to an apparatus for rapidly analyzing frame(s) of digitized video data which may include objects of interest randomly distributed throughout the video data and wherein...
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6442465 |
Vehicular component control systems and methods
System and method for controlling operation of a vehicle or a component thereof based on recognition of a individual including a processor embodying a pattern recognition algorithm trained to...
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6434256 |
Method for monitoring a position of vehicle in a lane of a roadway
A method for monitoring a position of a vehicle in a lane of a roadway. An image signal of a lane is first input from a camera, then noise of the image signal is eliminated. The image signal is...
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6430303 |
Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus for extracting the specified objects has a background image extract unit for extracting a background; a first average background extract unit which extracts an image...
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6411328 |
Method and apparatus for traffic incident detection
Apparatus and methods effective for detecting, locating and characterizing traffic-related incidents are based upon improved image processing techniques applied to infrared and visible light...
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6408231 |
Image signal processing circuit and vehicle running guiding apparatus
A program is normally executed in each of a plurality of microprocessors. When image data of a three-dimensional object and distance distribution information indicating a distribution of distance...
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6369701 |
Rendering device for generating a drive assistant image for drive assistance
In a rendering device Urnd, a CPU generates a lower viewpoint image based on captured images captured by image capture devices both securely mounted to a vehicle. Here, the lower viewpoint image...
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6363161 |
System for automatically generating database of objects of interest by analysis of images recorded by moving vehicle
A system for automatically generating a database of images and positions of objects of interest identified from video images depicting roadside scenes that are recorded from a vehicle navigating a...
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6343247 |
Automatic drive control system
In an automatic drive control system in a road environment in which an infrastructure has been constructed so as to automatically steer a vehicle, the automatic steering of the vehicle is performed...
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6341013 |
Method and device for regulating the attitude of a motor vehicle
A method for regulating the attitude of a motor vehicle by measuring the characteristic angles of the wheels, includes the following operations: obtaining at least one pair of images of each moving...
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6324489 |
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...
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6324453 |
Methods for determining the identification and position of and monitoring objects in a vehicle
A vehicle interior monitoring system to identify, locate and monitor occupants, including their parts, and other objects in the passenger compartment and objects outside of a motor vehicle, such as...
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6310546 |
Stereo type vehicle monitoring apparatus with a fail-safe function
A stereo type vehicle monitoring apparatus with a fail-safe function comprises a pair of cameras 1, 2, a stereo image producer 3, 4, 5, a calculator 12 and a fail decision unit 12. The pair of...
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6307959 |
Method and apparatus for estimating scene structure and ego-motion from multiple images of a scene using correlation
A system that estimates both the ego-motion of a camera through a scene and the structure of the scene by analyzing a batch of images of the scene obtained by the camera employs a...
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6298281 |
Assembly line for mounted units
An assembly line of mounted assemblies, each composed of a tire and a wheel, which includes mounting the tires on the wheels by use of a mounter, correcting the position of the tire heels and...
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6296317 |
Vision-based motion sensor for mining machine control
A mining machine having a position sensing and control apparatus is claimed. The mining machine has a vehicle body having forward and rearward ends and movable along a mine floor. A cutter head is...
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6285393 |
Object recognition apparatus and method
An object recognition apparatus that can recognize an object in an image acquired by an on-vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle with high efficiency and accuracy. A recognition processing is carried...
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6285778 |
Vehicle surroundings monitor with obstacle avoidance lighting
The vehicle surroundings monitor detects the sizes and positions of obstacles, ditches and humans as well as the depths of the ditches to provide the driver with sufficient information to secure...
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6281805 |
Automotive CCD camera
An automotive CCD camera includes a UV filter receiving light corresponding to lane images and filtering through ultraviolet light, a condenser condensing the UV light filtered through the UV...
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6233510 |
Method and system for predicting road profile
A method and system for predicting the condition of a road to be travelled by a vehicle includes a measurement device, such as a laser or machine vision system, disposed at a front of the vehicle...
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6218960 |
Rear-view monitor for use in vehicles
A rear-view monitor for use in vehicles is provided, in which contained are vehicle-mounted image pickup means for picking up images of road in the rear of one's own vehicle at every fixed time;...
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6212287 |
Method for identifying marking stripes of road lanes
A method, in a system for aiding the guidance of a vehicle, for identifying marking stripes of road lanes. A road image is subjected to a convolution operation with a mask matrix so as to identify...
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6205234 |
Image processing system
The invention is directed to an image processing system, which includes an image sensor (DD) for introducing image information of an object to detect image data for indicating at least a density of...
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6188778 |
Traffic congestion measuring method and apparatus and image processing method and apparatus
The present invention measures traffic congestion by utilizing a video camera to capture images of vehicles travelling on a road and analyzing sample points that are assigned to different aspects...
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6154559 |
System for classifying an individual's gaze direction
A system is provided to classify the gaze direction of an individual obseng a number of surrounding objects. The system utilizes a qualitative approach in which frequently occurring head poses of...
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6137531 |
Detecting device for road monitoring
A detecting device for road monitoring which detects traveling states of vehicles on a road (traffic stagnation, stopping of vehicles, etc.) or fallen objects on a road is provided. Luminance...
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