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Traffic line recognition device

US7346190B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 2004
Grant dateMar 18, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V20/588
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A traffic line recognition device includes: a traffic line region candidate extraction section that extracts a traffic line candidate, as a traffic line candidate, from a road image obtained by a TV camera installed on a vehicle; a two dimension/three dimension transform section that transforms two dimensional image coordinates of a pixel contained in the traffic line region candidate into three dimensional coordinates; a histogram production section that accumulates and projects the three dimensional coordinates onto a coordinate system in a direction crossing a road and produces a histogram in the direction crossing the road; and a traffic line judgment unit determines a traffic line based on that histogram.

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