IP Library Granted Patent US 12,607,749
Granted Patent B2
US 12,607,749 · App. 17/418,284 · Granted Apr 21, 2026

Obstacle detection system for work vehicle

Inventors: Takuya Iwase (Osaka, JP); Kazuhisa Yokoyama (Osaka, JP); Shiro Sugita (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
G01S17/931G01S17/89G05D1/0248G06F18/251G06T7/70H04N23/90G06T2207/30261
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Patent No.
US 12,607,749
App. No.
17/418,284
Granted
Apr 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The obstacle detection system for a work vehicle enables an obstacle, present in the surroundings of a work vehicle, to be accurately detected. This obstacle detection system for a work vehicle has: a plurality of imaging devices that take images of the surroundings of a work vehicle; and an image processing device that performs, according to a time division system, an obstacle identification process for identifying an obstacle on the basis of the images from the plurality of imaging devices. The image processing device changes a to-be-processed cycle per unit time for the plurality of imaging devices in the time division system in accordance with the vehicle speed and the traveling direction of the work vehicle.

Claims (12)

1 . An obstacle detection system for a work vehicle comprising:

a plurality of imaging devices, each of which captures an image of surroundings of the work vehicle; and

an image processing device that performs obstacle discrimination processing for discriminating an obstacle on the basis of the images from the plurality of imaging devices by a time division system, wherein

the image processing device changes a processing target cycle per unit time for each of the imaging devices in the time division system according to a travel direction and a vehicle speed of the work vehicle.

2 . The obstacle detection system for the work vehicle according to claim 1 further comprising:

a plurality of active sensors, each of which measures a distance to a measurement target object present in the surroundings of the work vehicle; and

an obstacle detection device that detects a position of the obstacle and a distance to the obstacle on the basis of discrimination information from the image processing device and measurement information from each of the active sensors.

3 . The obstacle detection system for the work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein

the image processing device calculates coordinates of the obstacle and the distance to the obstacle on the image on the basis of the image from the imaging device,

the active sensors are lidar sensors that sequentially measure a distance per coordinate of each of ranging points present as the measurement target objects in the surroundings of the work vehicle so as to extract a ranging point group of an obstacle candidate, and

the obstacle detection device adopts a matching distance of the ranging point group as the distance to the obstacle in the case where the coordinates of the obstacle and the distance to the obstacle from the image processing device match the distance per coordinate of the ranging point group from the lidar sensors, and adopts the distance to the obstacle from the image processing device in a case of non-matching.

4 . The obstacle detection system for the work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the active sensors measure the distance to the obstacle when the image processing device detects the obstacle.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 4, 2024
From: IWASE, TAKUYA; YOKOYAMA, KAZUHISA; SUGITA, SHIRO
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 068476/0266 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2024
From: IWASE, TAKUYA, MR.; YOKOYAMA, KAZUHISA, MR.; SUGITA, SHIRO, MR.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 068343/0408 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-244266 · Dec 27, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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