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US 10,769,760 · App. 16/109,940 · Granted Sep 8, 2020

Image processing apparatus and imaging apparatus that performs a distortion correction process

Inventor: Yuki Kawana (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 10,769,760
App. No.
16/109,940
Granted
Sep 8, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image processing apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to obtain an image including a first area and a second area, wherein the first area has a distortion that increases with increasing distance from an image center and the second area is in a predetermined angle range with respect to a straight line passing through the image center and extending in a horizontal axis, and the second area has a smaller distortion than that of the first area; and a corrector configured to perform a distortion correction process on the first area and but not to perform the distortion correction process on the second area.

Claims (8)

1. An image processing apparatus, which is mounted on a first movable body and which recognizes a second movable body moving around the first movable body from a photographed image of an area around the first movable body, comprising:

at least one processing circuit, programmed to:

obtain an image including a first area and a second area, wherein the first area has a distortion that increases with increasing distance from an image center and the second area is in a predetermined angle range with respect to a straight line passing through the image center and extending in a width direction which is a direction crossing a vertical direction of the first movable body, and the second area has a smaller distortion than that of the first area as the photographed image; and

perform a distortion correction process on the first area and but not to perform the distortion correction process on the second area.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processing circuit is further programmed to separately perform an object recognition process on the first area on which the distortion correction process is performed, and the object recognition process on the second area in order to recognize the second movable body.

3. An imaging apparatus, which is mounted on a first movable body and which outputs an image of an area around the first movable body to an image processing apparatus configured to recognize a second movable body moving around the first movable body, comprising:

a camera; and

a free-curved surface lens of the camera configured to form an image, wherein the image includes a first area having a distortion that increases with increasing distance from a center, and the image includes a second area that is in a predetermined angle range with respect to a straight line passing through the center and extending in a width direction which is a direction crossing a vertical direction the first movable body, and the second area has a smaller distortion than that of the first area.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 23, 2018
From: KAWANA, YUKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 046686/0095 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-163580 · Aug 28, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190066276A1 · Feb 28, 2019
Cited By (2)
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