Patent Document ID: 20150302261
Application ID: 14647214
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An on-vehicle image processing apparatus, comprising: a photographing device configured to photograph a road surface around a vehicle so as to obtain a photographed image; an image creation section configured to create an overhead view image showing a situation where a circumference of the vehicle is looked down from above the vehicle, based on the photographed image obtained by the photographing device; an extraction section configured to extract a road surface sign around the vehicle by using the overhead view image created by the image creation section; a detection section configured to detect one or more noises among at least a road surface noise, an obstruction noise, and an attached substance noise that are to be observed when the extraction section extracts the road surface sign; and a parking frame recognition section configured to recognize a parking frame based on one of a partial photographing region in the photographed image and a partial overhead view region in the overhead view image, depending on a noise detected by the detection section.