IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To calculate a distance to a pedestrian having a high risk preferentially, and to give a warning and set the execution timing of vehicle control early. PSOLUTION: A camera 31 performs photography; a pedestrian recognizer 18 recognizes the pedestrian from an input image processed by a preprocessor 11; and a priority setting section 19a sets a priority based on the size, position, and travel state of a pedestrian image in an image. A calculation order determination section 19b determines the order of the processing of distance calculation by the calculation processor 19c, so that the distance is calculated from the pedestrian having high priority. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT