Patent ID: 7345749
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A vehicle body slip angle detecting apparatus comprising: a front camera fixed to a front section of a vehicle body of a vehicle for photographing a road surface on which the vehicle is running; a rear camera fixed to a rear section of the vehicle body of the vehicle for photographing a road surface on which the vehicle is running; object-position specifying means for specifying a position of an object in a front image, which is an image of the road surface photographed by the front camera, by utilizing a difference in brightness in the front image; same-object-position specifying means for specifying a position of an object, which is same as the object whose position in the front image is specified by the object-position specifying means, in a rear image, which is an image of the road surface photographed by the rear camera, by utilizing a difference in brightness in the rear image; vehicle body slip angle detecting means for detecting a vehicle body slip angle of the vehicle on the basis of a comparison result between the position of the object in the front image specified by the object-position specifying means and the position of the same object in the rear image specified by the same-object-position specifying means.