Patents by Inventor Toshihiko Terada
Toshihiko Terada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10853692Abstract: A vicinity supervising device includes an image capturing unit that captures a plurality of images in which an object is simultaneously captured from different locations; a matching processing unit that calculates a parallax point and a reliability point, the parallax point being the number of pixel regions from which a parallax is calculated among a plurality of pixel regions divided by the plurality of images, and the reliability point being the number of pixel regions having high recognition reliability among the plurality of pixel regions; and an evaluation unit that evaluates, based on the parallax point and the reliability point, an imaging environment where the plurality of images are captured.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiko Terada, Naohide Uchida, Hirotake Ishigami, Hiroaki Ito
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Patent number: 10810712Abstract: In an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imagers through a windshield of the vehicle, an image acquirer is configured to acquire the plurality of images captured by the plurality of imagers, and a distortion corrector is configured to correct the plurality of images based on an optical distortion distribution of the windshield.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Masaki Kuwahara, Hiroaki Ito, Naohide Uchida, Jun Kishiwada
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Patent number: 10789732Abstract: In an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle carrying the apparatus, a corresponding-point displacement calculator sets a search region for corresponding points in a plurality of images of an object captured simultaneously from different positions and calculate a displacement value between the corresponding points. A search region modifier modifies the search region if a number of corresponding-point displacement values acquired by the corresponding-point displacement calculator within a predetermined period of time is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Hiroaki Ito, Naohide Uchida, Kagehiro Nagao
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Patent number: 10733749Abstract: An apparatus for supervising a vicinity of a vehicle includes: an image capturing unit that captures a plurality of images in which an object is simultaneously captured from different locations; a parallax calculation unit that performs a sub pixel estimation based on the plurality of images to calculate a parallax value; a parallax offset calculation unit that calculates a parallax offset value based on the parallax value under a condition where a decimal part S of the parallax value is within a predetermined range; and a parallax correction unit that corrects the parallax value using the parallax offset value.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiko Terada, Naohide Uchida, Hirotake Ishigami, Hiroaki Ito
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Patent number: 10713807Abstract: A vicinity supervising device of a vehicle includes an image capturing unit capturing a plurality of images at different locations; a distance acquiring unit acquiring a distance up to the object detected by transmitting and receiving probing waves from/to the object; a first offset calculation unit calculating a first parallax offset value based on the plurality of images and the distance up to the object; and a second offset calculation unit calculating a second parallax offset value based on a change in a parallax in a predetermined period at an identical point among the plurality of images and a travel distance of the vehicle travelling in a predetermined period; and a parallax correction unit correcting the parallax using the first parallax offset value under a condition where a difference between the first parallax offset value and the second parallax offset value is less than or equal to a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Hiroaki Ito, Naohide Uchida, Kagehiro Nagao
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Patent number: 10503984Abstract: In an object detection device, a distance image generation part generates a distance image based of a pair of brightness images transmitted from a stereo camera. A road surface estimation part estimates a road surface based on the generated distance image. An object detection part groups together positions having a distance value located on/over the estimated road surface and satisfying a predetermined relationship, and detects an object based on the grouped positions. An abnormality detection part detecting occurrence of image abnormality in the brightness image captured during a current detection period. The road surface estimation part estimates the road surface at the current detection period based on the road surface estimated at the previous detection period when the abnormality detection part detects the occurrence of image abnormality in the brightness image captured during the current detection period.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotake Ishigami, Toshihiko Terada, Hiroaki Ito
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Patent number: 10325164Abstract: A three dimensional object recognition device has in-vehicle cameras capturing front images of a vehicle, a recognition section and a light shaft judgment section. The recognition section detects a three dimensional object in the front images based on a parallax generated between the front images. The light shaft judgment section detects whether a light shaft phenomenon has happened in a three dimensional object area in at least one of the front images, and judges that the detected three dimensional object is an incorrect three dimensional object caused due to the light shaft phenomenon when detecting the light shaft phenomenon at every time when the recognition section detects the three dimensional object.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Toshihiko Terada
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Publication number: 20190102869Abstract: In an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imagers through a windshield of the vehicle, an image acquirer is configured to acquire the plurality of images captured by the plurality of imagers, and a distortion corrector is configured to correct the plurality of images based on an optical distortion distribution of the windshield.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Toshihiko TERADA, Masaki KUWAHARA, Hiroaki ITO, Naohide UCHIDA, Jun KISHIWADA
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Publication number: 20190102912Abstract: In an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle carrying the apparatus, a corresponding-point displacement calculator sets a search region for corresponding points in a plurality of images of an object captured simultaneously from different positions and calculate a displacement value between the corresponding points. A search region modifier modifies the search region if a number of corresponding-point displacement values acquired by the corresponding-point displacement calculator within a predetermined period of time is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Toshihiko TERADA, Hiroaki ITO, Naohide UCHIDA, Kagehiro NAGAO
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Publication number: 20190102901Abstract: A vicinity supervising device of a vehicle includes an image capturing unit capturing a plurality of images at different locations; a distance acquiring unit acquiring a distance up to the object detected by transmitting and receiving probing waves from/to the object; a first offset calculation unit calculating a first parallax offset value based on the plurality of images and the distance up to the object; and a second offset calculation unit calculating a second parallax offset value based on a change in a parallax in a predetermined period at an identical point among the plurality of images and a travel distance of the vehicle travelling in a predetermined period; and a parallax correction unit correcting the parallax using the first parallax offset value under a condition where a difference between the first parallax offset value and the second parallax offset value is less than or equal to a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Toshihiko TERADA, Hiroaki ITO, Naohide UCHIDA, Kagehiro NAGAO
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Publication number: 20190096075Abstract: An apparatus for supervising a vicinity of a vehicle includes: an image capturing unit that captures a plurality of images in which an object is simultaneously captured from different locations; a parallax calculation unit that performs a sub pixel estimation based on the plurality of images to calculate a parallax value; a parallax offset calculation unit that calculates a parallax offset value based on the parallax value under a condition where a decimal part S of the parallax value is within a predetermined range; and a parallax correction unit that corrects the parallax value using the parallax offset value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Toshihiko TERADA, Naohide UCHIDA, Hirotake ISHIGAMI, Hiroaki ITO
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Publication number: 20190095761Abstract: A vicinity supervising device includes an image capturing unit that captures a plurality of images in which an object is simultaneously captured from different locations; a matching processing unit that calculates a parallax point and a reliability point, the parallax point being the number of pixel regions from which a parallax is calculated among a plurality of pixel regions divided by the plurality of images, and the reliability point being the number of pixel regions having high recognition reliability among the plurality of pixel regions; and an evaluation unit that evaluates, based on the parallax point and the reliability point, an imaging environment where the plurality of images are captured.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Toshihiko TERADA, Naohide UCHIDA, Hirotake ISHIGAMI, Hiroaki ITO
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Patent number: 10148887Abstract: An imaging system 1 includes an imaging control device 10, an imaging device 20, and a light emitting device 30. The imaging control device 10 is provided for controlling the imaging device 20 and the light emitting device 30, and includes an evaluation unit 13, a light reception adjustment unit 14, and a light emission adjustment unit 15. The evaluation unit 13 evaluates respective brightnesses of the first image data and the second image data that are output from the imaging device 20. The light reception adjustment unit 14 adjusts any of an exposure time, a diaphragm value, and a gain that are to be used when the imaging device 20 captures an image, based on a brightness evaluation result. The light emission adjustment unit 15 causes the light emitting device 30 to emit light of either wavelength band of the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band, and adjusts a light emission intensity of the light, based on an evaluation result.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Yoichi Tosaka, Tetsuji Uezono, Kazunori Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180165529Abstract: In an object detection device, a distance image generation part generates a distance image based of a pair of brightness images transmitted from a stereo camera. A road surface estimation part estimates a road surface based on the generated distance image. An object detection part groups together positions having a distance value located on/over the estimated road surface and satisfying a predetermined relationship, and detects an object based on the grouped positions. An abnormality detection part detecting occurrence of image abnormality in the brightness image captured during a current detection period. The road surface estimation part estimates the road surface at the current detection period based on the road surface estimated at the previous detection period when the abnormality detection part detects the occurrence of image abnormality in the brightness image captured during the current detection period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Hirotake Ishigami, Toshihiko Terada, Hiroaki Ito
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Publication number: 20180137378Abstract: A three dimensional object recognition device has in-vehicle cameras capturing front images of a vehicle, a recognition section and a light shaft judgment section. The recognition section detects a three dimensional object in the front images based on a parallax generated between the front images. The light shaft judgment section detects whether a light shaft phenomenon has happened in a three dimensional object area in at least one of the front images, and judges that the detected three dimensional object is an incorrect three dimensional object caused due to the light shaft phenomenon when detecting the light shaft phenomenon at every time when the recognition section detects the three dimensional object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventor: Toshihiko Terada
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Publication number: 20160127631Abstract: An imaging system 1 includes an imaging control device 10, an imaging device 20, and a light emitting device 30. The imaging control device 10 is provided for controlling the imaging device 20 and the light emitting device 30, and includes an evaluation unit 13, a light reception adjustment unit 14, and a light emission adjustment unit 15. The evaluation unit 13 evaluates respective brightnesses of the first image data and the second image data that are output from the imaging device 20. The light reception adjustment unit 14 adjusts any of an exposure time, a diaphragm value, and a gain that are to be used when the imaging device 20 captures an image, based on a brightness evaluation result. The light emission adjustment unit 15 causes the light emitting device 30 to emit light of either wavelength band of the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band, and adjusts a light emission intensity of the light, based on an evaluation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Toshihiko TERADA, Yoichi TOSAKA, Tetsuji UEZONO, Kazunori SUZUKI
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Patent number: 8913843Abstract: To assign angle-dependent information to an input image in order to highlight and display one-dimensional patterns. First, data of an input image is inputted to a computer (Sa1). An arbitrarily defined constant m is then inputted as a contrast intensity (Sa2). Next, a closed region (x, y) made up of a plurality of pixels in the input image is demarcated as a target region D, degrees of inclination between respective two pixels, namely, a pixel of interest in the target region D and arbitrarily defined neighboring pixels thereof, are summed over a whole circumference around the pixel of interest, and the sum is divided by the number of pixels within the target region to calculate a mean value thereof (Sa3). Furthermore, an amplitude value ? of a gradient obtained in step (Sa3) is multiplied by the contrast intensity m (where m is a positive constant) inputted in step (Sa2) and an arbitrarily defined offset value ? is added to the obtained value (Sa4) to obtain a final output image (Sa5).Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignees: Takumi Vision Co., Ltd., Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Hironori Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20110280464Abstract: To assign angle-dependent information to an input image in order to highlight and display one-dimensional patterns. First, data of an input image is inputted to a computer (Sa1). An arbitrarily defined constant m is then inputted as a contrast intensity (Sa2). Next, a closed region (x, y) made up of a plurality of pixels in the input image is demarcated as a target region D, degrees of inclination between respective two pixels, namely, a pixel of interest in the target region D and arbitrarily defined neighboring pixels thereof, are summed over a whole circumference around the pixel of interest, and the sum is divided by the number of pixels within the target region to calculate a mean value thereof (Sa3). Furthermore, an amplitude value ? of a gradient obtained in step (Sa3) is multiplied by the contrast intensity m (where m is a positive constant) inputted in step (Sa2) and an arbitrarily defined offset value ? is added to the obtained value (Sa4) to obtain a final output image (Sa5).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicants: ROHM CO., LTD., TAKUMI VISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Hironori Yamauchi