Patent ID: 11880996
Assignee: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for acquiring surrounding information of a vehicle, comprising:
a camera configured to acquire an entire image of at least one surrounding vehicle; and
a controller configured to:
derive at least one of coordinates of a wheel image area or coordinates of a front-rear image area, the wheel image area and the front-rear image area being included in an entire image area, and
determine 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,

wherein the controller is configured to determine 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.