Patent ID: 11880996
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A controlling method for acquiring surrounding information of a vehicle, comprising:
acquiring, by a camera, an entire image of at least one surrounding vehicle;
deriving, by a controller, at least one of coordinates of a wheel image area or coordinates of a front-rear image area included in an entire image area,
determining, by the controller, distance information from the vehicle to the at least one surrounding vehicle based on a relative positional relationship between the entire image area and the at least one of the wheel image area coordinates or the front-rear image area coordinates, and
determining the entire image as being erroneously detected when center coordinates of at least two image areas of the wheel image area or the front-rear image area are included in one of the wheel image area or the front-rear image area.