US 11,704,910 B2
Vehicle detecting device and vehicle lamp system
Osamu Endo, Shizuoka (JP); Mitsuharu Mano, Shizuoka (JP); Takanori Namba, Shizuoka (JP); and Masayasu Ito, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/992,911.
Application 16/992,911 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/004104, filed on Feb. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-024925 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2018; application No. 2018-024926 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2018; and application No. 2018-024927 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0369200 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/58 (2022.01) [B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); B60Q 2300/13 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/41 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle detecting device, comprising:
a first processor configured to set a plurality of regions of interest having different ranges on image data acquired from an imager that captures an image of a space in front of a host vehicle; and
a second processor configured to determine, for each of the regions of interest, a presence of a front vehicle based on a luminous point present in the region and that executes a determination at different frequencies in the respective regions of interest, wherein
the plurality of regions of interest include at least one of a center region that includes a center of the image data, a side region that is located in a left side and/or a right side of the image data, an oncoming vehicle region that is determined based on a preceding vehicle at a predetermined distance, and a wide-angle region that excludes a determination exempt region located in an upper side of the image data and
a determination frequency is higher in the center region, the oncoming vehicle region, and/or a wide-angle region than in the side region.