Patent ID: 9626570
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A vehicle control system for a vehicle, the vehicle control system, comprising: a light-receiving section which has a plurality of filters having different wavelength pass bands, and a plurality of light-receiving elements, each of which receives incident light via any one of the filters; an image data generation section which, when receiving general image data of a scene around the vehicle which is an output of the light-receiving section, extracts outputs of the light-receiving elements correlated to the filters to generate a plurality of discrete image data, each of the plurality of discrete image data being for a respective one of the plurality of filters; an image data processing section which detects, based on at least one of the plurality of discrete image data generated by the image data generation section or composite image data generated by combining two or more of the plurality of discrete image data, at least one object included in a group of objects; and a vehicle control section which performs vehicle control according to the at least one object detected by the image data processing section; wherein the filters include at least one type of limited filter whose light-receiving band is a band to which the light-receiving elements are sensitive and whose pass band is a part of the light-receiving band, and an all-pass filter whose pass band is at least the combined pass band of the limited filters; the image data generation section generates, as the discrete image data, high-sensitivity image data based on the output of the light-receiving section which receives light via the all-pass filter, and low-sensitivity image data based on the output of the light-receiving section which receives light via the limited filter; and the image data processing section selects the high-sensitivity image data if a brightness of the scene around the vehicle is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold, and the image selection means selects the low-sensitivity image data if the brightness is higher than the predetermined threshold.