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| 20090153665 | LANE CHANGE CONTROL SYSTEM - This invention relates generally to vision systems for vehicles and, more particularly, to rear-view vision systems which provide the vehicle operator with scenic information in the direction rearward of the vehicle. More particularly, the invention relates to a rear-view vision system utilizing image capture devices, such as CMOS imaging arrays in external rear view mirrors to support lane change in a driver assistant system. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157264 | SECURITY SYSTEM AND A METHOD TO DERIVE A SECURITY SIGNAL - This invention relates to a security system for vehicles that have a side-looking pre-crash sensor for anticipating impact by a closing object, such as another motor vehicle, from a direction that is non-parallel to the direction of travel of the host vehicle. Such a system employs optical recognition for acquiring closing objects and for easing classification of the objects. The invention relates further to a method to derive a signal used for example to activate a side air back or to be used and further security systems of a vehicle. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090284365 | LIGHT MODULE FOR A VEHICLE MIRROR ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE MIRROR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A LIGHT MODULE - The invention relates to a turn-indicator light module having an outer contour and comprising one or more light guiding elements and one or more visible-light emitting light sources coupled to at least one of the one or more light guiding elements, wherein at least one infrared light emitting light source is coupled to at least one of the one or more light guiding elements. At least a major portion of a longitudinal extension between a first end and a second end opposite of the first end of the one or more light guiding elements follows the outer contour and wherein the one or more light guiding elements are adapted to emit light at least along the major portion of their longitudinal extension. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090284599 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND MIRROR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN IMAGING SYSTEM - The invention relates to an imaging system comprising at least two sensors surveying one or more fields of vision, at least one imaging sensor chip comprising an array of light-sensitive elements, wherein image information provided by the at least two sensors are projected on the at least one imaging sensor chip. The imaging sensor chip provides dedicated sensor areas, wherein each dedicated sensor area is assigned to one dedicated sensor. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20110010041 | SOFTWARE FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE HAZARDOUS DETECTION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM - The invention is related to a software for an automotive hazard detection and information system for vehicles running on at least one controller, wherein the software uses data of at least one optical sensor or a sensor group including an optical sensor, and comprises at least one analysis and interpretation unit per sensor or sensor group to determine geometry data and motion data of vehicle equipped with the software and/or of objects that arise hazardous situation and/or information requiring situation in the surrounding of the vehicle. The software provides the analysed data for at least one display unit and/or warning indicator for each sensor or sensor group. The software comprises software modules for different detection and information functions that use the same optical sensor data parallel for analysing and providing the different functions and that at least two modules are activated the same time. | 01-13-2011 |
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| 20110285810 | Visual Tracking Using Panoramas on Mobile Devices - A mobile platform maps and tracks the orientation of the mobile platform in real-time as the mobile platform rotates. The mobile platform captures a plurality of camera images as the camera rotates and projects the plurality of camera images consecutively to a panoramic cylindrical map. The map is extended by projecting areas of any camera image that correspond to unmapped portions of the panoramic cylindrical map. Keypoints are extracted from mapped portions of the map and using the keypoints the orientation of the camera is determined. Accumulated error is removed when closing the panoramic cylindrical map by extending the map horizontally beyond 360 degrees to produce overlapping regions and extracting and matching keypoints from the overlapping regions. Additionally, an incorrect estimate of the initial orientation of the map may be corrected by determining the correct orientation and re-projecting the map onto a map with the correct orientation. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285811 | ONLINE CREATION OF PANORAMIC AUGMENTED REALITY ANNOTATIONS ON MOBILE PLATFORMS - A mobile platform generates a panoramic map by rotating a camera and stores the panoramic map. The mobile platform performs a computer vision operation on the panoramic map while continuing to generate the panoramic map. The mobile platform may determine the location of the camera when the panoramic map is generated, produce an annotation on the panoramic map and transmit the determined location, annotation, and portion to a storage device. In another example, the mobile platform may receive an annotation, a portion of a source panoramic map associated with the annotation, and a location where the source panoramic map was generated. The mobile platform may compare the portion of the source panoramic map to the panoramic map to identify a position on the panoramic map that corresponds to the portion of the source panoramic map, and display the annotation based on the determined position on the panoramic map. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286631 | REAL TIME TRACKING/DETECTION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS - A mobile platform detects and tracks at least one target in real-time, by tracking at least one target, and creating an occlusion mask indicating an area in a current image to detect a new target. The mobile platform searches the area of the current image indicated by the occlusion mask to detect the new target. The use of a mask to instruct the detection system where to look for new targets increases the speed of the detection task. Additionally, to achieve real-time operation, the detection and tracking is performed in the limited time budget of the (inter) frame duration. Tracking targets is given higher priority than detecting new targets. After tracking is completed, detection is performed in the remaining time budget for the frame duration. Detection for one frame, thus, may be performed over multiple frames. | 11-24-2011 |
