Patent Document ID: 8878935
Application ID: 13983289
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An in-vehicle camera, comprising: a plurality of image capturing devices that captures an image outside a vehicle; a disparity calculating unit that calculates disparity information from a plurality of images captured by the plurality of image capturing devices; a distance calculating unit that calculates distance information to an object that is present outside the vehicle based on the disparity information calculated in the disparity calculating unit; an irradiating timing determining unit that determines whether the disparity information is calculated in the disparity calculating unit within a predetermined set time and determines whether to irradiate invisible pattern light or visible pattern light to the outside of the vehicle based on the result of determination; and a collision determining unit that determines a probability of collision based on the distance information calculated in the distance calculating unit, wherein even when the disparity information is not calculated in the disparity calculating unit within the predetermined set time, if the plurality of image capturing devices captures an image of the irradiating region after the irradiating timing determining unit outputs a signal to irradiate the pattern light and the disparity calculating unit calculates the disparity information from the captured image data, the distance calculating unit calculates distance information from the disparity information.