Patent ID: 11961306
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An object detection device for detecting an object, comprising:
a single sensor unit including a light emitting unit configured to emit illumination light, and a light receiving unit including a two-dimensional array of a plurality of light receiving elements on a light receiving surface for receiving light including reflected light of the illumination light, the light receiving unit being configured to output a light reception signal in response to a light reception state of a set of the light receiving elements in each pixel, the set of the light receiving elements within each predefined pixel region forming one pixel, the sensor unit being configured to, based on the light reception signals, acquire first information indicating reception intensity of the reflected light at each pixel, second information indicating reception intensity of background light that is light other than the reflected light, at each pixel, and third information indicating a distance to the object at each pixel as a pixel value of the pixel; and
a detection unit configured to use the pixel value of each pixel to detect the object, the detection unit being configured to use all of the first to third information included in the acquired pixel values of the respective pixels to detect the object.