Patent ID: 9317940
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A cruising zone division line recognition apparatus comprising: an image acquisition device that acquires an image including a road surface ahead of a vehicle; and an image processing device that adds blurring to an area including the road surface in the image acquired by the image acquisition device, and recognizes a cruising zone division line from the image to which blurring has been added, wherein: the image processing device adds, to the area including the road surface, a larger degree of blurring in the area including the road surface as the area becomes closer to the vehicle and a smaller degree of blurring as the area becomes farther from the vehicle; and the image processing device sets an amount of blurring to be added for each of a predetermined road surface area near the vehicle and a road surface area that is farther than the predetermined road surface area so that a total sum of blurring is fixed at all times.