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Granted Patent B2
US 11,265,517 · App. 16/814,441 · Granted Mar 1, 2022

Image information collection system and vehicle

Inventors: Shin Sakurada (Toyota, JP); Sinae Kim (Nagoya, JP); Takayuki Yano (Nisshin, JP); Naoki Yamamuro (Nagoya, JP); Takashi Hayashi (Aichi-gun, JP); Koji Miyata (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04N7/185G06K9/00791G06K9/00758G06K9/00993
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Patent No.
US 11,265,517
App. No.
16/814,441
Granted
Mar 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image information collection system is an image information collection system in which a server device collects image information from a vehicle via a telecommunications line. The vehicle includes: an imaging device configured to capture a surrounding image; and a control device configured to calculate an evaluation value of the surrounding image captured by the imaging device, the control device being configured to determine, based on the evaluation value thus calculated and a location where the surrounding image is captured, whether or not the surrounding image is transmitted to the server device as the image information, the control device being configured to transmit, to the server device, the surrounding image determined to be transmitted.

Claims (11)

1. An image information collection system in which a server device collects image information from a vehicle via a telecommunications line, wherein the vehicle includes:

an imaging device configured to capture a surrounding image; and

a control device configured to calculate an evaluation value of the surrounding image captured by the imaging device, the control device being configured to determine, based on the evaluation value thus calculated and a location where the surrounding image is captured, whether or not the surrounding image is transmitted to the server device as the image information, the control device being configured to transmit, to the server device, the surrounding image determined to be transmitted, wherein

the evaluation value is calculated based on a parameter about image quality of the surrounding image and information on a time range during which the surrounding image is captured, and

the evaluation value of the surrounding image captured during a time range in which the image quality of the surrounding image may not be high due to backlight is calculated to be lower than the evaluation values of the surrounding images captured during other time ranges.

2. The image information collection system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device does not transmit, to the server device, a surrounding image captured in a location where the vehicle has traveled before.

3. A vehicle comprising:

an imaging device configured to capture a surrounding image; and

a control device configured to calculate an evaluation value of the surrounding image captured by the imaging device, the control device being configured to determine, based on the evaluation value thus calculated and a location where the surrounding image is captured, whether or not the surrounding image is transmitted to the server device, the control device being configured to transmit, to the server device, the surrounding image determined to be transmitted, wherein

the evaluation value is calculated based on a parameter about image quality of the surrounding image and information on a time range during which the surrounding image is captured, and

the evaluation value of the surrounding image captured during a time range in which the image quality of the surrounding image may not be high due to backlight is calculated to be lower than the evaluation values of the surrounding images captured during other time ranges.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 30, 2020
From: SAKURADA, SHIN; KIM, SINAE; YANO, TAKAYUKI; YAMAMURO, NAOKI; HAYASHI, TAKASHI; MIYATA, KOJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 053365/0300 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 10, 2020
From: SAKURADA, SHIN; KIM, SHINAE; YANO, TAKAYUKI; YAMAMURO, NAOKI; HAYASHI, TAKASHI; MIYATA, KOJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 052136/0177 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-066906 · Mar 29, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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