Patent ID: 8115809
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: B60R,H04N

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus comprising: an imaging device that captures a surroundings of a vehicle; a temperature measuring device that measures a temperature of the imaging device; an OFF signal output device that outputs a command signal to set a power supply of the imaging device to the OFF state in accordance with the temperature of the imaging device measured by the temperature measuring device; a reset determining device that determines whether or not a state of the imaging device is a specified resettable state; a restart device that restarts the imaging device with the power supply set to the OFF state when the state of the imaging device is determined to be a specified resettable state by the reset determining device; a vehicle speed measuring device that measures the speed of the vehicle; and a vehicle temperature state measuring device that measures a temperature state of the vehicle, wherein the reset determining device determines that the state of the imaging device is a specified resettable state when the speed of the vehicle measured by the vehicle speed measuring device is not less than a specified speed and the temperature state of the vehicle measured by the vehicle temperature state measuring device is not more than a specified temperature.