18447587. APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT DETECTION simplified abstract (TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT DETECTION
Organization Name
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor(s)
Takuya Fujiki of Tokyo-to (JP)
Ryusuke Kuroda of Tokyo-to (JP)
Tadashi Okubo of Tokyo-to (JP)
Kenichiro Aoki of Tokyo-to (JP)
Tetsuro Sugiura of Tokyo-to (JP)
Wataru Kawashima of Aichi-ken (JP)
Hitoshi Kamada of Kawasaki-shi (JP)
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT DETECTION - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18447587 titled 'APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT DETECTION
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes an apparatus for object detection in vehicles, specifically for detecting surrounding vehicles and determining the likelihood of an emergency vehicle being present.
- Detects the number of lanes on a road where a vehicle is traveling
- Detects surrounding vehicles from a camera image showing the surroundings of the vehicle
- Determines the possibility of an emergency vehicle based on the number of surrounding vehicles detected
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- Potential Applications
- Vehicle safety systems
- Traffic management systems
- Emergency vehicle detection systems
- Problems Solved
- Improves road safety by detecting emergency vehicles
- Helps in traffic management by identifying emergency vehicles
- Benefits
- Enhances overall safety on the road
- Allows for quicker response to emergency vehicles
- Improves efficiency in traffic flow
Original Abstract Submitted
An apparatus for object detection detects a number of lanes included in a road on which a vehicle is traveling, detects one or more surrounding vehicles positioned in surroundings of the vehicle from a surrounding image showing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a camera mounted in the vehicle, and determines, when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes detected in a predetermined range at the back of the vehicle are detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle, that a possibility that any one of the surrounding vehicles being an emergency vehicle which is allowed to travel without obeying the traveling rule of the road is higher than when more surrounding vehicles than the number of lanes are not detected alongside in a width direction of the vehicle.
