Patent Document ID: 20140254872
Application ID: 14193249
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An object detection apparatus, using at least one processing circuit, for detecting an object in an image capturing area based on parallax information generated from a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing units, the object detection apparatus comprising; a parallax histogram information generator to generate vertical-direction parallax histogram information based on the parallax information, the vertical-direction parallax histogram information indicating a frequency profile of parallax values in each of vertical row areas in a captured image, the vertical row area preparable by dividing the captured image in a plurality of areas in a left-right direction; and an object image area extraction unit to extract, among parallax values having frequency exceeding a given frequency threshold, a group of pixels having parallax values existing within proximity of a given parallax value and having a pixel-to-pixel interval in an image left-to-right direction within a given range, as an object image area that includes an object for display, based on the vertical-direction parallax histogram information.