Patent Document ID: 9160986
Application ID: 13884732
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring device comprising: an imaging unit which is mounted in a vehicle and captures an image of surroundings of the vehicle; and an image processing unit having a processor and a memory, the image processing unit being configured to: extract possible image areas for a predetermined part of a desired type of object in the captured image; set a predetermined area below each extracted image area; when no pattern different from a background is captured in the predetermined area, or when a pattern different from the background is captured only in one of a first and a second areas each of which is a half of the predetermined area divided in a horizontal direction, exclude the extracted area related to said predetermined area and determine candidates for the desired type of object as objects in the remaining extracted image areas; determine, for each of the candidates, whether the candidate is the desired type of object.