Patent ID: 9137499
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: B60R,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for detecting an object approaching a vehicle by performing image recognition processing on an image captured by a camera that is mounted on the vehicle to cover a predetermined area around the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a signal receiver configured to obtain a vehicle signal indicative of an operating condition of the vehicle; a selector configured to select a predetermined region of the captured image, according to the vehicle signal, as an object detection region; a detector configured to detect the object approaching the vehicle by performing the image recognition processing on only the object detection region of the captured image; and a calculator configured to calculate an inclination angle of a road around the vehicle with respect to the vehicle, wherein the calculator calculates the inclination angle based on the captured image, and the selector selects the object detection region based on the inclination angle in such a manner that the object detection region corresponds to an area extending along the road.