A top-view image of a road is composed from at least two images taken by a vehicle-mounted camera. A speed and/or an acceleration of the vehicle is recorded, as well as at least two sequential images. A first image is selected for further processing. A first selected area of the first selected image is determined, located in a zone of the image with minimum distortion. A second image captured later is selected for further processing. A second area of the second image is selected in a zone of the image with minimum distortion and located such that image content shown at a lower border of the second area is adjacent to image content at an upper border of the first selected area. The first and second selected areas are transformed into a top-view perspective, and the transformed first and second selected areas stitched together for generating a composed top-view image.

Vision sensor systems and methods detect banding and flicker. The method includes receiving camera data and identifying a light source location in a frame of camera data and assigning a luminance measure at the light source as a signal reference. A region of interest (ROI) is then associated with the light source. The frame is incremented, and then a signal to noise ratio (SNR) at the light source is calculated. A number, N of frames may be processed to identify banding when it is present, and to identify flicker when it is present. Responsive to identifying banding or identifying flicker, a response for a display system or for a machine vision system is generated.

A vehicle image processing system including a control unit and a display unit. The control unit processes an image of the exterior of the vehicle. The display unit displays at least a part of the image. The control unit operates the display unit in first and second modes. The first mode displays at least a part of the image, and the second mode displays at least first and second adjacent regions. The second region is located at least in a lateral end of the display unit, where in the first region the display unit displays part of the image displayed in the first mode, and in the second region the display unit removes the part of the image not displayed in the first region.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera module having a camera and a circuit board. With the camera module mounted at a vehicle windshield, the camera has a field of view forward of the vehicle and through the vehicle windshield. The camera includes an imager and a lens, with the lens accommodated in a lens barrel. The camera captures image data when operated. The camera is electrically connected to circuitry established at the circuit board via a flexible electrical connection. Circuitry of the circuit board (i) provides electrical power to the camera via the flexible electrical connection, (ii) controls the camera via the flexible electrical connection and (iii) receives image data from the camera via the flexible electrical connection. With the camera module mounted at the windshield, the circuit board is tilted at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the lens barrel of the camera.

An information processing apparatus capable of assisting safe driving of a vehicle at a place such as an intersection where the view from the vehicle is obstructed or restricted is provided. On the basis of image information representing an image captured by an image capturing apparatus mounted in a vehicle, a detection processing unit detects a traffic mirror in the image and an object in the traffic mirror. And a calculating unit calculates a position of the object in the detected traffic mirror. Driving assist information is generated on the basis of the calculated position of the object in the traffic mirror, and the generated driving assist information is output.

The invention relates to an actuator device comprising at least one retaining means on which rearview means can be secured or is secured and which are mounted in a movable manner relative to a housing component of a rearview device and comprising at least one adjusting unit with at least one second adjusting means for moving the retaining means relative to the housing component. The first adjusting means and the second adjusting means each comprise at least one shape-memory element, and the first adjusting unit and the second adjusting unit are arranged between the housing component and the retaining means so as to be mechanically connected in series. The first adjusting unit has a first maximum travel path, and the second adjusting unit has a second maximum travel path which is different from the first maximum travel path. The invention also relates to a rearview device with an actuator device according to the invention.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera module having a camera and a circuit board. With the camera module mounted at a vehicle windshield, the camera has a field of view forward of the vehicle and through the vehicle windshield. The camera includes an imager and a lens, with the lens accommodated in a lens barrel. The camera captures image data when operated. The camera is electrically connected to circuitry established at the circuit board via a flexible electrical connection. Circuitry of the circuit board (i) provides electrical power to the camera via the flexible electrical connection, (ii) controls the camera via the flexible electrical connection and (iii) receives image data from the camera via the flexible electrical connection. With the camera module mounted at the windshield, the circuit board is tilted at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the lens barrel of the camera.

A method of synchronizing cameras for a vehicular vision system includes providing camera control signals to the cameras from the ECU via respective links from the ECU to the cameras. At least two of the cameras are in communication with a hub via respective links, and the ECU is in communication with the hub via a hub link. The camera control signals are provided to one camera via a link between the ECU and the camera, and are provided to at least two other cameras via the hub link and respective links between the hub and the other cameras. The camera control signals regulate timing of the respective camera via starting the camera synchronous to the ECU reference timing. Image data is captured by each camera and provided to the ECU via the respective link or links.

A viewing system for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, includes an image capture unit, a computing unit, and a reproducing unit. The image capture unit includes a lens, which has an optical axis, and a digital image sensing unit, and is configured to be attached to the vehicle such that a viewing area on the side of the vehicle is sensed with at least one part of a first legally-prescribed field of view and with at least one part of a second legally-prescribed field of view. The lens is disposed with respect to the digital image sensing unit such that the optical axis extends through the part of the first legally-prescribed field of view that is reproduced on the digital image sensing unit.

A multi-sensor system, made up of at least two sensor units, in which the sensors may be activated at predefined target points in time on the basis of internal clocks mounted decentrally in the sensor units, in order to record data. Thus, the triggering of the sensor measurements and the assignment of measured data at the corresponding measuring points in time take place decentrally in the sensor units. So that all measuring points in time are based on a common time, the individual sensor units of the multi-sensor system may be synchronized with the aid of a synchronization signal.