公开(公告)号：US20190287256A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-19

申请号：US16429965

申请日：2019-06-03

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kenji IWAHASHI ,  Hiroki SHINDE ,  Tomohiro HONDA ,  Noritaka SHIMIZU ,  Hiroshi IWAI ,  Osamu SHIBATA

IPC: G06T7/521 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S17/93 ,  G01C9/06

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle that runs on a road surface includes: a light source that emits illumination light which is infrared light; a solid-state imaging device that images a subject and outputs an imaging signal indicating a light exposure amount; and a computator that computes subject information regarding the subject by using the imaging signal. The solid-state imaging device includes: first pixels that image the subject by receiving reflected light that is the illumination light reflected off the subject; and second pixels that image the subject by receiving visible light. Information indicated by an imaging signal outputted from the first pixels is information regarding a slope of the road surface, and information indicated by an imaging signal outputted from the second pixels is information regarding an appearance of the road surface.