Abstract: A detection system of vehicle interior condition including an illumination unit for illuminating a plurality of mutually different illumination regions including at least one seat of a vehicle and a surrounding region thereof so as to have different illumination time durations shifted by a predetermined time, an imaging unit for photographing an occupant and/or an object on the seat upon each illumination of the illumination unit, and a control processor for comparing a plurality of images photographed by the imaging unit and also for generating information indicative of a condition of the occupant and/or the object on the basis of a comparison result of the image comparator.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a lamp which emits light to a glass, an imaging device which captures light which is emitted from the lamp and reflected by the glass, and an optical filter, located between the glass and the imaging device, which transmits rays with a specific wavelength of the reflected light. A lens is provided in front of the imaging device, and a focus of the lens is adjusted to a point beyond the glass, and an image processor is provided which processes an image captured by the imaging device and detects moisture on the glass.

Abstract: In this light distribution control device in order to provide a vehicular lighting fixture for an Adaptive Frontlighting System (AFS) in which a lot of light distribution patterns can be set without making the entire lighting fixture larger, beams which link said movable substrates to said inner frames and beams which link said inner frames to said outer frame are mutually orthogonal, and a light distribution pattern is set by deforming under torsion the beams which link said movable substrates to said inner frames and the beams which link said inner frames to said outer frame, and swinging each of said movable substrates with respect to said outer frame in the biaxial directions independently.

Abstract: An image processing system that detects foreign matter on a glass window of a vehicle and objects in front of the vehicle. The system includes an image processor, a first lamp, and a second lamp. On/off control of the first and second lamps is controlled by the image processor. Light from the first lamp is reflected from the outer sauce of the glass when raindrops are present on the outside of the glass. Light from the second lamp is reflected from the inner surface of the glass when moisture is present on the inside of the glass. Any reflected light goes through a lens and an optical filter with prescribed optical characteristics to an image device. The lens is focused to a point beyond the window so that the image processor an also detect objects in front of the vehicle.

Abstract: Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a processing amount reduction unit, the selected image data is transferred to a RAM in a single chop by a data transfer unit, and the processing of recognizing a white line is executed by a CPU on the basis of the image data stored in the RAM.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a lamp which emits light to a glass, an imaging device which captures light which is emitted from the lamp and reflected by the glass, and an optical filter, located between the glass and the imaging device, which transmits rays with a specific wavelength of the reflected light. A lens is provided in front of the imaging device, and a focus of the lens is adjusted to a point beyond the glass, and an image processor is provided which processes an image captured by the imaging device and detects moisture on the glass.

Abstract: Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a processing amount reduction unit, the selected image data is transferred to a RAM in a single chop by a data transfer unit, and the processing of recognizing a white line is executed by a CPU on the basis of the image data stored in the RAM.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to make one image pickup device sharable, with high reliability, among the multiple application programs that dynamically vary camera parameters. In order to achieve this object, the invention includes an image pickup device 6 that acquires images, an image pickup device controller 13 that accepts image acquisition requests from the multiple application programs 151 to 15N and controls the image pickup device, an application scheduler 14 that selects application programs to be executed.

Abstract: A vehicle detection apparatus has a classifier that receives features of an image and judges whether the image is a vehicle. The features extracted from the picked-up image are supplied to the classifier so that judgment can be made of whether the image is the vehicle. If the judgment result and the result from a radar are not matched, the picked-up image pattern is registered in teaching data. The classifier is updated by learning from the teaching data.

Abstract: In this light distribution control device in order to provide a vehicular lighting fixture for an Adaptive Frontlighting System (AFS) in which a lot of light distribution patterns can be set without making the entire lighting fixture larger, beams which link said movable substrates to said inner frames and beams which link said inner frames to said outer frame are mutually orthogonal, and a light distribution pattern is set by deforming under torsion the beams which link said movable substrates to said inner frames and the beams which link said inner frames to said outer frame, and swinging each of said movable substrates with respect to said outer frame in the biaxial directions independently.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling operation of auxiliary equipment of a vehicle by receiving an output of a surroundings detection sensor for detecting the surrounding of the vehicle and an output of the vehicle information sensor, for detecting operation of the vehicle, wherein the distance to and the direction of an overtaking vehicle, an oncoming vehicle, or a preceding vehicle and the light intensities of the right and the left headlamps are controlled independently. A plurality of processes required for controlling the vehicle auxiliary equipment are performed by the time division processing.

Abstract: A camera apparatus for vehicles including an imaging element and a lens comprises a gradation generation unit for stepwise changing the light amount reaching a whole or part of the imaging element. By this, a gradation region is formed on the imaging element and it absorbs assembling errors during manufacturing and positional shifts attributed to a road surface slope or the like. Even when an inverse light state is caused, it is possible to improve the image processing performance with an ecconomical configuration.

Abstract: The invention provides an image processing system capable of precisely locating the positions of the light spots covering near headlights through far tail lamps by using one camera. The invention, discriminating the headlights and tail lamps from noise lights such as a traffic light, streetlight, and vending machine, enhances the vehicle detection performance at night. The system includes an image input means that inputs images in front of a vehicle, an image analysis means that analyzes the images inputted by the image input means. The image input means has a means of photographing more than two images with different exposures. The image analysis means analyzes the images photographed by the image input means to transform them into the position information of the vehicles traveling in front.

Abstract: To provide an auto light system which allows the driver to confirm the head light beam direction and range easily and to switch the light state easily in the auto light system for controlling the head light beam direction and range. The auto light system comprises a light control means 4 for controlling the light 6 of the vehicle, a manual light operating means 8 for operating manually the light 6, said manual light operating means 8 operated in response to the output signal from the light control means 4, and a display means 7 for displaying the control state of the light 6 controlled by the light control means 4.

Abstract: An image processing system which detects foreign matter on window of a vehicle with high reliability. The system includes an image processor, a first lamp, and a second lamp and when to turn on the first and second lamps is controlled by the image processor. Light from the first lamp passes through the glass. If there are raindrops on the outer surface of the glass, light is reflected by raindrops and light from the second lamp is reflected by a surface of the glass and such reflected light goes through a lens and an optical filter with prescribed optical characteristics to an imaging device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a small sized on board image processing apparatus with high detection performances of objects, such as a run lane. The apparatus that recognizes surrounding objects of a vehicle, based on image signals obtained by picking-up the circumference of the vehicles with an image pick-up device, the image pick-up device being equipped with a first pixel row area which has sensitivity to visible light and a second pixel row area which has sensitivity to invisible light alternatively, wherein the apparatus further comprises an image signal processing section for recognizing the objects using visible light zone image signals obtained from the first area and image signals obtained from the second area.

Abstract: In a lane marker recognition method comprising the steps of inputting an image including a lane marker, extracting a luminance change point in the image input in the image inputting step, and estimating the position of the lane marker using the edge points extracted in the edge extracting step, the edge extracting step calculates an angle of orientation of each of the edges and the lane marker position estimating step extracts edge points that are oriented toward a vanishing point of a road from among the edge points extracted in the edge extracting step.

Abstract: Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a processing amount reduction unit, the selected image data is transferred to a RAM in a single chop by a data transfer unit, and the processing of recognizing a white line is executed by a CPU on the basis of the image data stored in the RAM.

Abstract: In a method of adjusting the axis of a car on-board radar, especially, a car on-board mono-pulse radar having the function of transmitting radio waves, light or ultrasonic waves, a car axis and an offset axis are set and the mount angle of an antenna offset-mounted on the offset axis can be adjusted with high precision and with ease through a reduced number of process steps.

Abstract: An image pickup unit (2) mounted on a vehicle shoots an image in front thereof to attain image information. An edge pixel extraction section (40202 to 40206) scans the obtained image information for each line and then checks boundaries between a particular color and the other colors to extract pixels having the particular color as edge pixels. Moreover, a candidate line extraction section (40208 to 40212) references position coordinates of the extracted edge pixels such that assuming the edge pixels to be classified to configure straight lines, the edge pixels are coupled with each other to configure straight lines according to the classification so as to obtain the straight lines as candidate lines.Thereafter, a line selection section (40212) selects a left line and a right line in front of the vehicle from the plural candidate lines, thereby attaining the left and right lines.