Patent Document ID: 20150195500
Application ID: 14419025
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An in-vehicle imaging device that images a photographic subject by an imaging unit loaded on a vehicle, comprising: a detection region setting unit for setting a detection region corresponding to a predetermined object to be detected in an imaging screen, for an image signal from the imaging unit; a color signal determination unit for setting a specific color corresponding to the object to be detected and determining, in regard to pixels included in the detection region, whether color data thereof are present in the vicinity of the specific color; and a gain control unit for averaging the color data of the pixels (hereinafter, approximate color pixels) that have been determined to be present in the vicinity of the specific color by the color signal determination unit concerned in the detection region, and adjusting a color gain of the image signal on the basis of a difference value between an average value of the color data of the approximate color pixels concerned and color data of the specific color.