| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle periphery monitoring device for, when an attention level of contact possibility with a pedestrian is equivalent to an attention level of contact possibility with an animal, preferentially setting the pedestrian to a warning object in default, and for setting the animal to the warning object according to situations. <P>SOLUTION: As the peripheral environmental situations of an own vehicle, when the variance value of an image calculated by a variance value calculation part which calculates the variance value of pixel values configuring a gray scale image 202A imaged by an infrared camera is a threshold variance value or less, it is recognized that a road Rd on which the own vehicle is traveling is not an urban street but a country road or a mountain path, and it is estimated that possibility that an animal runs out is higher than possibility that a pedestrian runs out, and the setting of a warning object with respect to a pedestrian candidate 62 and an animal candidate 162 having an equivalent attention level is changed from the pedestrian candidate 62 to the animal candidate 162. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
