A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head adjustably attached at a mounting base. The mirror head includes a prismatic mirror reflective element having a wedge-shaped, reflector-coated glass substrate having a front side and a rear side separated by a thickness of the glass substrate, with the thickness of the glass substrate varying between a lower edge region of the glass substrate and an upper edge region of the glass substrate. A driver monitoring camera is accommodated by the mirror head and views through the prismatic mirror reflective element. A refraction-compensating element is disposed between a lens of the driver monitoring camera and the rear side of the glass substrate of the prismatic mirror reflective element. The refraction-compensating element is a wedge-shaped element that offsets refraction of light that passes through the wedge-shaped, reflector coated glass substrate of the prismatic mirror reflective element.

A method detects a suspension position of a supporting bar in a pallet, having supporting bars along a longitudinal direction, each with multiple supporting bar tips along a main direction of extent. The supporting bar tips define a supporting plane. A two-dimensional contrast-image dataset of the pallet is created, its pixels being assigned a pixel value and a pixel-area unit of the supporting plane. The contrast-image dataset has regions that are assigned to the supporting bar tips as local pixel-value extremes in a uniform pixel-value background. A longitudinal position is determined in the contrast-image dataset of the regions that are assigned to the supporting bar tips a supporting bar using the local pixel-value extremes. The suspension position of the supporting bar in the pallet is deduced based on the longitudinal position in the contrast-image dataset and an extent of the pixel-area unit in the longitudinal direction.

A method detects a suspension position of a supporting bar in a pallet, having supporting bars along a longitudinal direction, each with multiple supporting bar tips along a main direction of extent. The supporting bar tips define a supporting plane. A two-dimensional contrast-image dataset of the pallet is created, its pixels being assigned a pixel value and a pixel-area unit of the supporting plane. The contrast-image dataset has regions that are assigned to the supporting bar tips as local pixel-value extremes in a uniform pixel-value background. A longitudinal position is determined in the contrast-image dataset of the regions that are assigned to the supporting bar tips a supporting bar using the local pixel-value extremes. The suspension position of the supporting bar in the pallet is deduced based on the longitudinal position in the contrast-image dataset and an extent of the pixel-area unit in the longitudinal direction.

A remote temperature detector system comprises a reference thermal mass; a temperature sensor in thermal contact with the reference thermal mass for monitoring temperature thereof and generating temperature signals indicative of the monitored temperature; an infrared detector for detecting infrared radiation emitted by an external object and generating infrared detection signals; and a processor in communication with the temperature sensor and the infrared detector to receive the temperature and infrared detection signals, wherein the processor is configured to operate on the infrared detection signals and temperature signals to estimate temperature of the one or more external objects.

A remote temperature detector system comprises a reference thermal mass; a temperature sensor in thermal contact with the reference thermal mass for monitoring temperature thereof and generating temperature signals indicative of the monitored temperature; an infrared detector for detecting infrared radiation emitted by an external object and generating infrared detection signals; and a processor in communication with the temperature sensor and the infrared detector to receive the temperature and infrared detection signals, wherein the processor is configured to operate on the infrared detection signals and temperature signals to estimate temperature of the one or more external objects.

Systems and methods are provided to determine glare information. An optical filter is configured to attenuate visible light and pass near-infrared light and an image sensor is configured to detect light reflected by a surface after the reflected light passes through the optical filter. The image sensor is further configured to generate image data comprising a detected near-infrared portion of the light reflected by the surface. Processing circuitry is configured to receive the image data from the image sensor and determine near-infrared glare information based on the received image. The near-infrared glare information can be used to adjust display parameter associated with the surface or characterize near-infrared glare properties of the surface.

A system for monitoring a human operator of critical equipment comprises an imaging module; a biometric measurement module; a risk detection module; and a risk response module. The imaging module includes a multi-spectral light source configured to emit light in a first spectral wavelength range for illuminating at least a portion of the human operator; a camera configured to detect light received from the human operator in a second spectral wavelength range; an imaging data generator configured to generate image data based on the emitted light and detected light. The biometric measurement module is configured to receive the image data; and based on the image data, perform at least one biometric measurement on the human operator. The risk detection module is configured to establish a safety risk associated with the human operator; and the risk response module is configured to based on the safety risk generate a risk response.

The disclosure discloses a reflow-solderable vehicle-mounted lens module configured to be capable of performing imaging for near-infrared light, the vehicle-mounted lens module including: a lens barrel and a lens group disposed within the lens barrel, the lens group including a plurality of lenses, wherein at least one of the lenses is made of polyetherimide by means of injection molding, the lens made of polyetherimide being injection molded by setting a mold temperature controller at a temperature higher than 265° C.; wherein the near-infrared light has a wavelength ranging from 800 to 1,100 nm, and the highest ambient temperature for the reflow soldering is set at 230 to 260° C.; the vehicle-mounted lens module can ensure stable and consistent performance of a module system before and after undergoing a reflow soldering process. The disclosure overcomes the shortcomings of the existing technology and provides a reflow-solderable vehicle-mounted lens module, which can ensure stable and consistent performance of a module system before and after undergoing a reflow soldering process with the highest ambient temperature of 230 to 260° C., and can satisfy the process requirements for a camera system in DMS.

The disclosure discloses a reflow-solderable vehicle-mounted lens module configured to be capable of performing imaging for near-infrared light, the vehicle-mounted lens module including: a lens barrel and a lens group disposed within the lens barrel, the lens group including a plurality of lenses, wherein at least one of the lenses is made of polyetherimide by means of injection molding, the lens made of polyetherimide being injection molded by setting a mold temperature controller at a temperature higher than 265° C.; wherein the near-infrared light has a wavelength ranging from 800 to 1,100 nm, and the highest ambient temperature for the reflow soldering is set at 230 to 260° C.; the vehicle-mounted lens module can ensure stable and consistent performance of a module system before and after undergoing a reflow soldering process. The disclosure overcomes the shortcomings of the existing technology and provides a reflow-solderable vehicle-mounted lens module, which can ensure stable and consistent performance of a module system before and after undergoing a reflow soldering process with the highest ambient temperature of 230 to 260° C., and can satisfy the process requirements for a camera system in DMS.

A Driver Monitoring System, DMS, configured to detect spoofing attempts, the system comprising: an NIR image sensor module; a light source; a controller configured to control the light source and the image sensor module, so to capture each consecutive image of the sequence in a different lighting condition; a processor having processor operable software, the software comprising: a motion analyzer, operable to analyze a motion in the sequence of images, and output a motion-based result; a first neural network, operable to extract at least one type of information from an at least two channel image created by stacking a set of at least two consecutive images from the image sequence, and output a spatial result; and a fusion program, operable to merge the motion-based and the spatial results, and to output a final result, the final result determining if the target is live or fake.