Invention Application
- Patent Title: Camera Device
- Patent Title (中): 相机设备
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Application No.: US13131426Application Date: 2009-11-19
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Publication No.: US20110261168A1Publication Date: 2011-10-27
- Inventor: Takeshi Shima , Mirai Higuchi , Shoji Muramatsu , Tatsuhiko Monji
- Applicant: Takeshi Shima , Mirai Higuchi , Shoji Muramatsu , Tatsuhiko Monji
- Applicant Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Priority: JP2008-304957 20081128
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/069613 WO 20091119
- Main IPC: H04N13/02
- IPC: H04N13/02

Abstract:
Provided is a camera device which is capable of estimating a road shape ahead of a target vehicle or capable of determining whether or not the target vehicle needs to be decelerated by controlling a brake before a curve, even in the situation where a white line of a traveling road or a roadside three-dimensional object is difficult to detect. A camera device 105 including a plurality of image capturing units 107 and 108 which each take an image of a traveling road ahead of a target vehicle 106, includes: a three-dimensional object ahead detection unit 114 which detects three-dimensional objects ahead 101 existing in a vicinity of a vanishing point of the traveling road 102 on the basis of the images picked up by the plurality of image capturing units 107 and 108; and a road shape estimation unit 113 which estimates a road shape of a distant portion on the traveling road 102 on the basis of a detection result detected by the three-dimensional object ahead detection unit 114.
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