公开(公告)号：US20190293791A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US16437965

申请日：2019-06-11

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Hiroshi IWAI ,  Hiroshi IWAMURA ,  Osamu SHIBATA ,  Tomohiro HONDA ,  Tomohito NAGATA

IPC: G01S17/10 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G06T7/20 ,  H04N5/33

Abstract: An image capture control device includes a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data, and a controller that controls an infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of transmission pulses to be emitted to a target, when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.

公开(公告)号：US20180275279A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15935544

申请日：2018-03-26

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Hiroshi IWAI ,  Osamu SHIBATA ,  Tomohiro HONDA ,  Tomohito NAGATA

IPC: G01S17/89 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S17/87 ,  G01S17/02

CPC classification number: G01S17/89 ,  G01S7/4816 ,  G01S17/026 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S17/87

Abstract: An environment monitoring system being mountable on a vehicle and including: a light source that emits invisible light; a plurality of first optical/electrical converters that output a signal indicating an amount of incident light, upon reception of invisible light emitted from the light source and reflected off a target in a first visual field that is a part of visual field in surroundings of the vehicle; a plurality of second optical/electrical converters that constitute a optical/electrical converter array together with the plurality of first optical/electrical converters and output a signal indicating an amount of incident light, upon reception of visual light from a second visual field containing the first visual field; and a control device that derives a distance to the target in accordance with output signals from the plurality of first optical/electrical converters. The light source emits invisible light toward the first visual field.

公开(公告)号：US20160178734A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-23

申请号：US14977579

申请日：2015-12-21

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Makoto KAWAMURA ,  Tomohito NAGATA ,  Haruka TAKANO ,  Mitsuhiko OTANI

IPC: G01S7/48 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G01S17/08

Abstract: In a distance measuring device, a drive controller generates an emission timing signal and an exposure timing signal in accordance with a measurement condition. A light source irradiates light in response to the emission timing signal. A solid-state image sensor has a group of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern and divided into a plurality of regions on a line-by-line basis, and performs an exposure process on a selected one of the regions in response to the exposure timing signal. An imaging signal processor obtains distance information by performing an arithmetic operation on a signal output from the solid-state image sensor. The drive controller generates mutually different measurement conditions to the plurality of the regions of the solid-state image sensor.

Abstract translation: 在距离测量装置中，驱动控制器根据测量条件产生发射定时信号和曝光定时信号。 光源响应于发射定时信号照射光。 固态图像传感器具有排列成矩阵图案的一组像素，并且逐行地分割为多个区域，并且响应于曝光时间对所选择的一个区域进行曝光处理 信号。 成像信号处理器通过对从固态图像传感器输出的信号执行算术运算来获得距离信息。 驱动控制器对固态图像传感器的多个区域产生相互不同的测量条件。