A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, including a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7545955?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7545955 - Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus