US 12,437,547 B2
Image processing method
Naofumi Kobayashi, Gotemba (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/490,084.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-196578 (JP), filed on Dec. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0193954 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. G06V 20/54 (2022.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/54 (2022.01) [G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); H04N 1/40012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing method for processing a color image imaged by an imager which images traffic conditions around a vehicle, the image processing method including:
keeping a first image portion corresponding to a first range, which is smaller than a range imaged by the imager, of the color image in color;
converting a second image portion, which includes at least a second range other than the first range of the color image, into monochrome;
transmitting the first image portion kept in color and the second image portion converted into monochrome to an external device, which is different from the vehicle; and
the external device colorizing the second image portion converted into monochrome, and synthesizing the first image portion kept in color and the colorized second image portion.