| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly recognize a vehicle of approaching one's own vehicle. <P>SOLUTION: A characteristic point extracting part 22 performs recognizing processing of a pair of light emitting members arranged in a predetermined aboveground height position (for example, a height position for arranging a direction indicator) in a front part of the other vehicle to image data inputted from a rear imaging camera 11 and a position (for example, both end parts in the car width direction) arranged at a predetermined interval L in the car width direction. A characteristic point relative position detecting part 24 detects a relative position to the one's own vehicle of the pair of extracted light emitting members. An object distance calculating part 26 calculates information on a relative distance to the one's own vehicle of the pair of extracted light emitting members. A travel support determining part 27 sets a travel support level on the basis of the relative position to the one's own vehicle of the pair of light emitting members, information on the relative distance to the one's own vehicle of the pair of extracted light emitting members and travel information on the one's own vehicle detected by a one's own vehicle information detecting part 13, and operates a notifying device 17 in response to this travel support level. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
