OBJECT CLASSIFICATION DEVICE, PARKING SPACE DETECTION DEVICE, OBJECT CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an object classification device for properly recognizing the height of an object without using any stereo-camera. SOLUTION: This object classification device is provided with: a photographic image receiving part 11 for receiving two or more photographic images photographed by a camera mounted on a traveling object under movement; a storage part 12 for storing the photographic images; an object detection part 13 for detecting objects included in the two or more stored photographic images having the time difference of photographing; a change detection part 14 for detecting the change of the objects detected by the object detection part 13 between the two or more photographic images; a decision part 16 for deciding whether or not the change detected by the change detection part 14 is made to correspond to the first change pattern of the object whose height is higher than predetermined height, or whether or not it is made to correspond to the second change pattern of the object whose height is lower than the predetermined height; and an output part 17 for outputting the object information about the height of the object by using the decision result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT