Patent ID: 11968478
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A camera system mountable on a vehicle, comprising:
an imaging unit configured to capture multiple frame images of an outside of the vehicle in a given cycle, the imaging unit outputting in the given cycle:
a first given number of frame images each determined to be a recognition target for recognition processing by a recognition processor;
a second given number of frame images each determined to be both a storage target and a recognition target, each of the second given number of frame images being outputted as both the storage target and the recognition target at the same time so that the second given number of frame images are commonly used for both (i) recognition processing by the recognition processor, and (ii) storage by an image recorder; and

an image processor configured to obtain the first given number of frame images and the second given numbers of frame images from the imaging unit, the image processor configured to separate the first given number of frame images and the second given numbers of frame images in accordance with a usage of the multiple frame images into:
frame images for recognition processing by the recognition processor; and
frame images to be stored in the image recorder,

the image processor configured to output the frame images for recognition processing by the recognition processor and output the frame images to be stored to the image recorder,
wherein
the second given number is calculated by subtracting the first given number from a total number of the multiple frame images captured by the imaging unit.