US 11,753,859 B2
Vehicle operation detection device and vehicle operation detection method
Takuya Tamura, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by AISIN CORPORATION, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/188,042.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-054417 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2020; and application No. 2021-006837 (JP), filed on Jan. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2021/0301580 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. E05F 15/00 (2015.01); E05F 15/73 (2015.01); B60J 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC E05F 15/73 (2015.01) [B60J 5/062 (2013.01); E05F 2015/767 (2015.01); E05Y 2400/40 (2013.01); E05Y 2400/85 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle operation detection device that is applied to a vehicle including a vehicle body provided with an opening portion, an opening and closing body configured to open and close the opening portion, an actuator configured to cause the opening and closing body to perform opening and closing operations, and a camera configured to capture an image around the opening portion, and is configured to detect a gesture of a user for starting at least one of the opening operation and the closing operation of the opening and closing body, the vehicle operation detection device comprising:
a processor configured to
acquire a moving direction of a pair of moving objects of the user with respect to the vehicle based on the image captured by the camera;
determine whether or not the moving direction of the pair of moving objects of the user is a direction approaching the vehicle;
when the moving direction of the pair of moving objects of the user is the direction approaching the vehicle,
specify the moving direction of the pair of moving objects of the user as a direction of the user;
set directions of motion of the gesture in association with the specified direction of the user; and
determine that the gesture has been detected, based on the image captured by the camera, when the directions of motion of at least one of the pair of moving objects of the user are changed in order of the set directions of motion of the gesture.