Object Detection With Attitude-Adaptive Velocity Filtering

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing object detection systems face challenges in accuracy due to individual differences among detectors and environmental disturbances, leading to detection errors.

Innovation Solution

An object detection device that utilizes a combination of cameras, millimeter-wave radar, and Lidar to acquire an object's attitude and velocity, employing filters with varying smoothing levels based on the object's attitude to improve detection accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a single filter with fixed smoothing level is applied to velocity detection, then the device complexity is low, but the measurement precision deteriorates due to inability to adapt to different object attitudes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevelocity detection accuracyVSAvoidfilter processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The filter processing unit dynamically adjusts the filter type and smoothing level based on the detected attitude of the target object. When the object is detected at an oblique angle, a filter with higher smoothing level is applied; when detected at a standard angle, a filter with lower smoothing level is used. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system flexible rather than fixed, improving measurement precision without requiring multiple permanent filter configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the filter parameters (smoothing level) based on the object's attitude parameters. By monitoring the attitude detection results and adjusting the filter characteristics accordingly, the system optimizes velocity detection accuracy for different object orientations while maintaining a single filter processing unit, thus resolving the contradiction between precision and complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If detector individuality and environmental disturbances are not addressed, then the device complexity remains low, but the reliability of detection deteriorates due to errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The filter processing unit uses feedback from the attitude detection results to adjust the filtering applied to velocity data. By continuously monitoring object attitude and adapting the filter characteristics in response, the system compensates for detection errors caused by individual detector variations and environmental disturbances, thereby improving reliability without requiring additional hardware.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12461225B2Object detection device and object detection method
Publication Date: 2025.11.04 DENSO CORP
  • US12461225B2 patent drawing
  • US12461225B2 patent drawing
  • US12461225B2 patent drawing

AI summary

An object detection device is provided. The object detection device includes an acquisition unit that uses a detection result concerning a target object to acquire an attitude and a velocity of the target object, and a filter processing unit that sets a filter applied to the velocity depending on the acquired attitude of the target object to perform filter processing.