Patent attributes
The vehicle exterior moving object detection system includes a surrounding-area image input section for capturing images in areas surrounding its own vehicle and delivering the captured images as surrounding-area images, a combined image constructing section for constructing a combined image including a result output from the detection of a moving object by combining the surrounding-area images, and an output section for presenting the combined image to the user. The vehicle exterior moving object detection system includes a movable-component region setting section for setting shapes and layout of movable components of the own vehicle in the surrounding-area images and calculating regions for the movable components of the vehicle, and a moving object detecting section for being supplied with the movable-component regions calculated by the movable-component region setting section and the surrounding-area images from the surrounding-area image input section, performing a process of detecting a moving object, and outputting a detection result.
