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Road line recognition apparatus

US8224031B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 25, 2006
Grant dateJul 17, 2012
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Expiry dateNov 17, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V10/753
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A road line recognition apparatus, including: an imaging section imaging a progress path of a own vehicle including a road to output a couple of images; an image processing section calculating a distance in a real space in a set region of at least an image on one side based on the imaged couple of images; and a detection section detecting a road line; wherein the detection section includes: a road line candidate point detection and conversion processing unit detecting a pixel on a road surface as a road line candidate point based on luminance and the distance with regard to the image on one side, and performing Hough conversion of the road line candidate point; a road line straight line detection processing unit detecting one straight line proper to the road line on each of a right side and a left side of the own vehicle based on at least a position or a behavior of the own vehicle between straight lines obtained by the Hough conversion; and a road line detection processing unit detecting the road line of a shape of a straight line or a curved line by recording a road line position which is a road line candidate point indicating a road line among the road line candidate points base…

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