Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140112543 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device, includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to: extract an edge where positions overlap with each other, by comparing a first edge image extracted from an image captured for a first time and a second edge image extracted from an image captured for a second time after the first time, the image for the first time and the image for the second first time being captured from a movable body, remove the extracted edge from at least one of the first edge image and the second edge image, perform matching processing on the first and second edge images in both or one of which the extracted edge has been removed, and estimate a movement amount of the movable body, by using a displacement amount between the first edge image and the second edge image which are subjected to the matching processing. | 04-24-2014 |
20140139673 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: obtain image data regarding an image captured by an image capture device that moves along with a moving body and of which image capture direction is a certain traveling direction of the moving body, and detect a feature caused by a reflection from features based on information regarding positions of the features in the image data at a time when the moving body has moved in a direction different from the image capture direction. | 05-22-2014 |
20140152780 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit for acquiring an image from a camera in a moving body; an extracting unit for extracting feature points from the image; a matching unit for performing a matching process on feature points extracted from images taken at different time points; a position calculating unit for calculating a three-dimensional position based on the matching feature point and the movement of the moving body; a calculating unit for calculating a precision of the three-dimensional position; a distribution determining unit for detecting an object from the image and setting a threshold for each object based on a precision distribution of the feature points of each object; a selecting unit for selecting, for each object, the feature points having a higher precision than the threshold; and a generating unit for generating an object shape by using the feature points that have been selected. | 06-05-2014 |
20140294246 | MOVEMENT DISTANCE ESTIMATING DEVICE AND MOVEMENT DISTANCE ESTIMATING METHOD - A movement distance estimating device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine, based on a first image and a second image included in images captured by an image capture device mounted on a moving body, an amount of relative movement of the moving body between a first time point at which the first image is captured and a second time point at which the second image is captured, determine a scale for the amount of relative movement, based on a relation in a three-dimensional space between a road surface and a spatial point corresponding to a feature point in an area other than a road-surface area in at least one image of the captured images, and determine a movement distance of the moving body between the first and second time points, based on the amount of relative movement and the scale. | 10-02-2014 |
20140362193 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD - A processor of a distance measuring apparatus calculates a three-dimensional position of an object in the surroundings based on the first image, the second image and the amount of movement. The processor determines that calculated three-dimensional position is an error, when the displacement between a fourth position at which a third position set based on the calculated three-dimensional position of the object is projected on either one image of the first image and the second image and a position of the object in the one image is equal to or larger than a prescribed value. The processor makes the calculated three-dimensional position a distance measurement target when the calculated three-dimensional position is not determined as an error, and when determined as an error, excludes the calculated three-dimensional position from the distance measurement target. | 12-11-2014 |
20150125040 | TRAVEL AMOUNT ESTIMATION DEVICE AND TRAVEL AMOUNT ESTIMATING METHOD - A processor generates a first road surface image from an image at a first time captured by an imaging device mounted on a moving body, and generates a second road surface image from an image at a second time after the first time. Next, the processor determines direction information depending on a direction of travel of the moving body between the first time and the second time from an amount of turn of the moving body between the first time and the second time. Then, the processor determines a relative positional relationship between the first road surface image and the second road surface image by using the amount of turn and the direction information, and determines an amount of travel of the moving body between the first time and the second time on the basis of the relative positional relationship. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131858 | TRACKING DEVICE AND TRACKING METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for tracking a feature point in an image that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes: calculating first values indicating degree of corner for respective pixels in another image, based on change of brightness values in horizontal direction and vertical direction; calculating second values indicating degree of similarity between respective areas in the another image and a reference area around the feature point in the image, based on comparison between the respective areas and the reference area; calculating third values indicating overall degree of corner and similarity, based on the first values and the second values; and tracking the feature point by identifying a point in the another image corresponding to the feature point in the image, based on the third values. | 05-14-2015 |
20150251662 | LOCUS ESTIMATION DEVICE AND LOCUS ESTIMATING METHOD - A processor of a locus estimation device accepts a measured value of a wheel speed of right and left front wheels of a moving object, and a measured value of a steering angle at which the traveling direction is changed. Based on a measured value of a wheel speed of the right and left front wheels, a measured value of a steering angle, a distance in the direction of the body of the moving object, a distance in the direction of the axle of the moving object, and a constant, the processor estimates an amount of rotation of the middle point of a rotation center of the right and left rear wheels on a circle having a center which is a point on a straight line passing through the rotation center of the right and left rear wheels, and an amount of translation of the middle point. | 09-10-2015 |