VEHICLE-ONBOARD DRIVING LANE RECOGNIZING APPARATUS

摘要

A vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus of a small scale includes an image pick-up unit ( 1 ) mounted on a motor vehicle for picking up images of scenes making appearance in front of the motor vehicle, an image data selecting unit ( 2 ) for selecting image data only of a predetermined region from the image picked up by the image pick-up unit ( 1 ), an image data storing unit ( 3 ) for storing the image data, and a driving lane recognizing unit ( 4 ) for detecting lane markings ( 21 ) on the road from the image data stored in the image data storing unit ( 3 ) to thereby recognize a driving lane extending along the lane markings ( 21 ). The image data selecting unit ( 2 ), the image data storing unit ( 3 ) and the driving lane recognizing unit ( 4 ) are all implemented in a single chip.