Provided is an image pickup system including: a front camera sensor; and a camera sensor for image generation having a second horizontal angle of view. The latter camera sensor includes: an image sensor having an image pickup surface; and an optical system having a lens. The image sensor has: a specific region in which light from an object positioned within a diagonal lateral azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface; and a residual region in which light from an object positioned within a residual azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface, the residual azimuth angle range being obtained by excluding the diagonal lateral azimuth angle range from the second horizontal angle of view. The lens has a curved surface formed so that a horizontal pixel density in the specific region becomes larger than that in the residual region.

Provided is an image pickup system including: a front camera sensor; and a camera sensor for image generation having a second horizontal angle of view. The latter camera sensor includes: an image sensor having an image pickup surface; and an optical system having a lens. The image sensor has: a specific region in which light from an object positioned within a diagonal lateral azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface; and a residual region in which light from an object positioned within a residual azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface, the residual azimuth angle range being obtained by excluding the diagonal lateral azimuth angle range from the second horizontal angle of view. The lens has a curved surface formed so that a horizontal pixel density in the specific region becomes larger than that in the residual region.

A gradient change detection system for a moving body for detecting a change in a gradient of a traveling path, the gradient change detection system includes a posture detection unit that detects a posture change amount in a rotation direction about a left-right direction with respect to a traveling direction of a moving body, and a gradient change detector that detects a change in a gradient of the traveling path based on the posture change amount or a variation amount in predetermined unit time of the posture change amount.

A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a monocular distance calculator, a relaxation distance calculator, and an updated distance calculator. The monocular distance calculator calculates a monocular distance of a three-dimensional object from a luminance image generated by an imaging unit. The relaxation distance calculator calculates a relaxation distance of the three-dimensional object from two luminance images generated by two imaging units based on a degree of image matching between the two luminance images determined using a threshold more lenient than another threshold used to determine the degree of image matching to generate a stereo distance of the three-dimensional object. The updated distance calculator calculates an updated distance of the three-dimensional object by mixing the monocular distance and the relaxation distance at a predetermined ratio.

A vehicle cruise control device includes: an arithmetic circuitry and a device circuitry that controls actuation of traveling devices mounted in a vehicle. The arithmetic circuitry is configured to recognize a vehicle external environment; set a route to be traveled by the vehicle; determine a target motion of the vehicle to follow the set route; and generate an image to be displayed for driving assistance, by using an image taken by the camera and information on the recognized vehicle external environment. The control circuitry is configured to control actuation of one or more traveling devices mounted in the vehicle, based on the target motion determined.

The present invention is to perform appropriate display on a display of a navigation system. A navigation system that displays an image on a display and presents the image to an occupant of a vehicle, acquires data for generating drawing elements from at least one information source and stores the data in a temporary storage for each of the drawing elements included in the image, selects, from among normal available data stored in the temporary storage, data based on the information source determined in accordance with a predetermined setting, and causes a drawing processor to draw an image combining the drawing elements based on the selected data.

A vehicular camera system includes an attaching structure configured to attach at an in-cabin side of a vehicle windshield. A camera module accommodates a circuit board and an imager and the camera module includes a lens aligned with the imager. The attaching structure includes a camera module receiving portion having an opening at a lower portion of the camera module receiving portion. With the attaching structure attached at the in-cabin side of the vehicle windshield, the camera module is inserted upward through the opening and is at least partially received in the camera module receiving portion to attach the camera module at the camera module receiving portion. With the attaching structure attached at the in-cabin side of the vehicle windshield and with the camera module at least partially received in the camera module receiving portion, the imager views through the vehicle windshield and forward of the vehicle.

An information processing method for a vehicle includes capturing and storing images of an area in front of the vehicle, acquiring information on the speed of the vehicle, and transmitting an image to an information processing apparatus when a judgment is made that a change in speed equal to or greater than a threshold occurs while the vehicle is traveling in a predetermined section, the image being captured during a predetermined period that includes the time when the judgment is made.

A vehicular driving assist system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle equipped with the vehicular driving assist system and viewing forward of the vehicle, the camera capturing image data. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes electronic circuitry and associated software. The electronic circuitry of the ECU includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The ECU, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines presence of a leading vehicle traveling in front of the equipped vehicle and in the same traffic lane as the equipped vehicle. The ECU, responsive to determining presence of the leading vehicle, determines presence of a pothole in front of the vehicle and in the same traffic lane as the equipped vehicle.

Systems and methods of detecting and tracking one or more vehicles in a field of view of an imaging system using neural network processing. An electronic controller receives an input image from a camera mounted on the host vehicle. The electronic controller applies a neural network configured to output a definition of a three-dimensional bounding box based at least in part on the input image. The three-dimensional bounding box indicates a size and a position of a detected vehicle in a field of view of the input image. The three-dimensional bounding box includes a first quadrilateral shape outlining a rear or front of the detected vehicle and a second quadrilateral shape outline a side of the detected vehicle.