Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of maintaining recognition accuracy for distance, and the like, while meeting conflicting demands such as suppressing the response delay from image input from a camera to calculation result output, enhancing recognition accuracy, reducing calculation load (enhancing processing efficiency), and enhancing response speed. The time of the starting of the processing (S105) of a first distance calculation unit (105) for calculating the relative distance to an object on the basis of current position information determined on the basis of a left or right image and past position information for the object is set to an earlier time than the ending of the processing (S107) of an object detection unit (107) for determining current position information for an object on the basis of parallax information obtained from the left and right images and detecting the object.

Abstract: The present invention provides CPU load reduction and a method of efficient image data transfer. An image processing device, which comprises an image generating unit (203) which further comprises a plurality of processing units which process a plurality of instances of image information and in where the image generating unit (203) transfers accumulated data for each interrupt factor, comprises: data transfer units for each factor (208-212) which accept the interrupts from the image generating unit (203) for each interrupt factor and transfer the data for each interrupt factor, and notifies a CPU (207) of the interrupt when the transfer of the data to be transferred for each interrupt factor is completed; and a communication line (1) which is connected to the image generating unit (203) and the data transfer units for each factor (208-212).

Abstract: An image processing device processes an image captured by at least one image-capturing device including a lens which has characteristics of including an inflection point of a change rate of an incidence angle per image height with respect to the incidence angle at a predetermined inflection point incidence angle. The image processing device includes a resolution adjustment unit that adjusts resolution of an inflection point correspondence image area corresponding to the predetermined inflection point incidence angle and resolution of at least one of an inside image area positioned more inside than the inflection point correspondence image area and an outside image area positioned outside of the inflection point correspondence image area.

Abstract: Provided is an object detection device that makes it possible to more accurately detect a road surface even when an area that is not the road surface occupies the majority of an image and the gradient of the road surface is large, and to detect an obstacle on a road surface with greater accuracy than in the prior art.

Abstract: Provided are a travel route recognition device and a travel assistance system using the same, which are capable of precisely recognizing the positions of white lines and road boundaries even if, for example, there is a decrease in the accuracy of the detection of both white lines and road boundaries on the travel route. The direction of the travel route is estimated on the basis of the direction of a linear site included in an image obtained by imaging units, and the direction of the boundaries of a surface region included in a distance image comprising three-dimensional distance information generated on the basis of the images obtained by the imaging units or on the basis of distance information detected by the distance detection unit.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of obtaining a vehicle-mounted image recognition device capable of improving the efficiency of image processing.

Abstract: To provide a moving object recognition apparatus that earlier detects a moving object crossing a road, the moving object recognition apparatus includes a left imaging unit 101, a right imaging unit 102, a moving object detection unit that detects a moving object based on images imaged by the left imaging unit and the right imaging unit, wherein, suppose that non-overlap regions in which an imaging region of the left imaging unit 101 and an imaging region of the right imaging unit 102 do not overlap are first regions 203, 204 and an overlap region in which the imaging region of the left imaging unit and the imaging region of the right imaging unit overlap is a second region 205, the moving object detection unit uses different methods of detecting the moving object between the first regions and the second region.

Abstract: To process sensor information positively in an information processor to which plural sensors are connected. An information processing system including plural sensors, plural buses respectively connected to the plural sensors, an arbitration unit performing arbitration of the plural buses and a priority determination unit determining the priority of each of the plural sensors, in which the arbitration unit performs arbitration of the plural buses in accordance with the determination result of the priority determination unit.

Abstract: In order to provide an object sensing device whereby, among limited computation resources, performance is improved in sensing an object when sense processing a plurality of objects to be sensed, an object sensing device includes image capture units which capture images external to a host vehicle, and a processing device which sense processes objects to be sensed from the images which are captured by the image capture units, said processing device further including: a scene analysis unit which analyzes a travel scene of the host vehicle; a process priority change unit which changes a sensing process priority of the object to be sensed on the basis of the travel scene which is analyzed by the scene analysis unit; and an object to be sensed sensing unit which carries out a sensing of the object to be sensed on the basis of the sensing process priority which is changed by the process priority change unit.

Abstract: For reduced processing time involved in an image recognition process, correctors 26a and 26b corrects two source images, acquired by two cameras during the imaging of an object, so that when the two source images are arranged side by side in a lateral direction, the imaged object has the same height in both images. A parallax calculation section 28 calculates, by block matching process, a parallax on the basis of the two corrected source images. A parallax image generation section 30 generates a parallax image on the basis of the parallax calculated by the parallax calculation section 28.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to obtain an external environment-recognizing apparatus with which it is possible to obtain detection results having a necessary accuracy when a plurality of target objects from a captured image are detected.

Abstract: In order to be able to measure a distance with disparity resolution of a stereo camera or less and precisely measure a relative distance to a target even in the event of degradation of the imaging condition, a distance calculator includes a monocular distance calculation section 203, a stereo distance calculation section 204, a blurriness level calculation section 201, a distance estimation section 202, and an output distance calculation section 206. The monocular distance calculation section 203 calculates the distance to a target based on image information captured by a camera 101 or 102. The stereo distance calculation section 204 calculates the distance to the target based on image information captured by the two cameras 101 and 102. The blurriness level calculation section 201 calculates the blurriness level of the image information captured by the image information captured by the cameras 101 and 102.

Abstract: Provided is an object detection device that makes it possible to more accurately detect a road surface even when an area that is not the road surface occupies the majority of an image and the gradient of the road surface is large, and to detect an obstacle on a road surface with greater accuracy than in the prior art.

Abstract: The present invention provides CPU load reduction and a method of efficient image data transfer. An image processing device, which comprises an image generating unit (203) which further comprises a plurality of processing units which process a plurality of instances of image information and in where the image generating unit (203) transfers accumulated data for each interrupt factor, comprises: data transfer units for each factor (208-212) which accept the interrupts from the image generating unit (203) for each interrupt factor and transfer the data for each interrupt factor, and notifies a CPU (207) of the interrupt when the transfer of the data to be transferred for each interrupt factor is completed; and a communication line (1) which is connected to the image generating unit (203) and the data transfer units for each factor (208-212).

Abstract: In order to provide an object sensing device whereby, among limited computation resources, performance is improved in sensing an object when sense processing a plurality of objects to be sensed, an object sensing device includes image capture units which capture images external to a host vehicle, and a processing device which sense processes objects to be sensed from the images which are captured by the image capture units, said processing device further including: a scene analysis unit which analyzes a travel scene of the host vehicle; a process priority change unit which changes a sensing process priority of the object to be sensed on the basis of the travel scene which is analyzed by the scene analysis unit; and an object to be sensed sensing unit which carries out a sensing of the object to be sensed on the basis of the sensing process priority which is changed by the process priority change unit.

Abstract: In order to provide an imaging apparatus which minimizes erroneous recognition of a moving body and prevent a braking operation from being erroneously performed, even if the moving body is likely to cross a road, the imaging apparatus includes a correlation value calculation unit that calculates a correlation value from two images captured by two imaging units, a three-dimensional object detection unit that detects a three-dimensional object from the two images, a region dividing unit that divides an image region including the three-dimensional object into multiple regions, a relative speed calculation unit that calculates relative speed for every region of the multiple regions, and a reliability calculation unit that calculates reliability of the three-dimensional object, based on the relative speed calculated for every region.

Abstract: For reduced processing time involved in an image recognition process, correctors 26a and 26b corrects two source images, acquired by two cameras during the imaging of an object, so that when the two source images are arranged side by side in a lateral direction, the imaged object has the same height in both images. A parallax calculation section 28 calculates, by block matching process, a parallax on the basis of the two corrected source images. A parallax image generation section 30 generates a parallax image on the basis of the parallax calculated by the parallax calculation section 28.

Abstract: To provide a moving object recognition apparatus that earlier detects a moving object crossing a road, the moving object recognition apparatus includes a left imaging unit 101, a right imaging unit 102, a moving object detection unit that detects a moving object based on images imaged by the left imaging unit and the right imaging unit, wherein, suppose that non-overlap regions in which an imaging region of the left imaging unit 101 and an imaging region of the right imaging unit 102 do not overlap are first regions 203, 204 and an overlap region in which the imaging region of the left imaging unit and the imaging region of the right imaging unit overlap is a second region 205, the moving object detection unit uses different methods of detecting the moving object between the first regions and the second region.

Abstract: In order to provide a small, stereo camera with stable errors of distance measurement, there are provided: an image acquisition unit that acquires plural images imaged by plural imaging units; a first region processing unit that divides each of the plural images acquired by the image acquisition unit into first regions composed of predetermined plural pixels, and measures a distance for each of the divided first regions to generate a first distance image; a target object extraction unit that extracts a target object from the distance image or the image, and extracts a second region composed of the plural first regions including the extracted target object; an error factor identification unit that extracts a predetermined representative value from the inside of the second region, compares the brightness value of an arbitrary pixel in the second region with that in a correspondence region up to the position moved from the arbitrary pixel by a disparity represented by the representative value, and determines an

Abstract: To obtain an image processing device and a method of processing an image that improve distance accuracy and is capable of performing accurate distance even about an object at a greater distance than before, when a distance to an object is measured, one image object region 302 including an image of an object is extracted from one image of a pair of images imaged by a pair of imaging elements at the same time in the same direction. The degree of background that is likelihood of whether either an object image configuration part 304 or a background image configuration part 303 is calculated for each of a plurality of image configuration parts that configures the one image object region 302. Then, the other image object region 503 having an image similar to the one image object region 302 is extracted from the other image 501 using the degree of background, and a parallax between the one image object region 302 and the other image object region 503 is calculated.