Patent 11295429 was granted and assigned to Toyota on April, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An imaging abnormality diagnosis device includes one or more processors configured to: detect a lane line in an image of a road surface captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle; estimate a shape of a road on which the vehicle is traveling, based on an output of a detector mounted on the vehicle, the detector being other than the camera; and detect as a distorted area an area in the image where the shape of the road and a shape of the lane line do not coincide with each other.