Patent ID: 8988276
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G01S,G06K,G08G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring device equipped with a radar which is mounted on a vehicle and which detects a relative position of the vehicle and a physical body existing within a first monitoring range in the surroundings of the vehicle, a camera which is mounted on the vehicle and which images a second monitoring range overlapping the first monitoring range, and a classification determining unit which determines a classification of the physical body existing in the surroundings of the vehicle based on detection data from the radar and a photographed image from the camera, wherein the classification determining unit is configured to execute a process of excluding the physical body whose classification was determined based on the photographed image and then to execute classification determination based on the detection data from the radar with respect to the physical body whose classification has not been determined.