Patent ID: 6556133
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: B60R,B60W,G01S,G06K,G06T,G08G,H04N

Abstract:
A vehicle-use surroundings monitoring system comprising:an image-taking means installed on a subject vehicle to take an image of surroundings of the subject vehicle to obtain a taken-image; an approaching vehicle detecting means to detect, by image-processing the taken-image, an approaching vehicle approaching the subject vehicle from an adjacent lane area; a danger judging means to judge dangerousness about the approaching vehicle detected; an existence judging means to judge an existence of an abnormally approaching following vehicle traveling on an subject lane ahead of or behind the subject vehicle and obstructing to image-take the adjacent lane area by the image-taking means; and an alarm generating means to give out an alarm when the existence judging means judges that the abnormally approaching following vehicle exists.