OBJECT RECOGNIZING DEVICE

摘要

An object recognition apparatus that is capable of consistently recognizing the shape of an object in the periphery of a moving body using a small amount of computation even when data for an extraneous object are introduced, and of calculating the positional relationship of both objects and satisfactorily reporting the positional relationship. The object recognition apparatus for recognizing an object in the periphery of a moving object is configured as described below. The object recognition apparatus comprises object detection means (1) for detecting information about the surface shape of the object; shape recognition means (2) for computing a degree of coincidence of a sample group with respect to a shape model that is determined on the basis of a sample arbitrarily extracted from a sample group composed of information about the surface shape, and recognizing a profile shape of the object; relative positioning computation means (3) for computing a positional relationship between the moving body and the object on the basis of detection and recognition results of the object detection means (1) and the shape recognition means (2); and reporting means (5) for reporting the positional relationship using a sound or a display on the basis of computation results of the relative positioning computation means (3).