OBJECT POSITION DETECTION DEVICE, TRAVEL CONTROL SYSTEM, AND TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: MATSUO, Shigeru, SASAMOTO, Manabu, UENO, Kentarou
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.06.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

An object position detection device includes a first distance detection unit detecting a distance of an object from images, a first position detection unit detecting a position of the object based on the distance, a processing area which contains the object detected by the first distance detection unit in images, a second position detection unit that detects a position of the object in the processing area, a second distance detection unit that detects a distance of the object based on the position of the object detected by the second position detection unit, a unit that detects an orientation of the object based on the position of the object detected by the second position detection unit, and a determination unit that determines the distance and the position of the object in accordance with information of detections executed by the first and the second distance detection units, and the orientation detection unit.