Method and an apparatus for monitoring the environment around a vehicle and an operation support system using the same
US5612686A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 28, 1994 |
| Grant date | Mar 18, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 28, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30261
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Safety of the distance between vehicles is judged by monitoring whether or not an object other than a front road surface, namely, a preceding vehicle, exists in a predetermined area of the front road surface which is recognized by a picture processing unit used as a sensor for recognizing traffic states of the front road, without recognizing an image of a preceding vehicle having a complicated shape and a plurality of colors of the preceding vehicle by means of picture processing.
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