A large vehicle backup camera apparatus for assisting tractor trailer and RV drivers while backing up includes a camera and at least one wide-angle light coupled to the camera housing. A transmitter coupled within the camera housing transmits video from the camera to a personal electronic device. A ferrous plate is coupled within the camera housing adjacent a housing back side of the camera housing. A mounting bracket has a magnet coupled there within. The magnet is selectively engageable with the ferrous plate to selectively engage a trailer rear of a tractor-trailer or long-towed RV that use and operate a 5th wheel mechanism, a gooseneck hitch, or any other hitch prone to sharp turning or jackknifing during reverse when towing.

A trailer reverse assist (TRA) system for a tow vehicle aids in reversing an attached trailer. The TRA system includes a processor circuit; at least one camera to obtain images of the trailer; and vehicle dynamic sensors to obtain vehicle dynamics data from the vehicle. The processor circuit, while the TRA system is in a standby, non-active state and while the vehicle is in Drive and traveling forward at a speed above a threshold speed: learns parameters and/or image features of an attached trailer based on data from the at least one camera and the vehicle dynamic sensors; causes the learned parameters and/or image features of the attached trailer to be stored in a database; and informs the driver via the infotainment system that the TRA system can be activated.

In a first case a trimmed image generating section carries out trimming such that respective lateral direction lengths of a rear processed image and rear lateral processed images in the combined image are equal, and in a second case in which the trimmed image generating section judges that there is information that is included in the images of the first overlapping regions and is not included in the images of the second overlapping regions and information that should be included in the combined image, the trimmed image generating section carries out trimming such that the information that should be included in the combined image remains in the rear lateral processed images, and, as compared with the first case, the lateral direction length of the rear processed image in the combined image is short, and the lateral direction lengths of the rear lateral processed images in the combined image are long.

A method for providing adaptive vehicle-proximity guidance may include monitoring transit-condition data of a roadway traversed by a user-vehicle. The method may further include determining, based at least in part on the transit-condition data, a proximity zone. The method may further include generating a first visual representation that corresponds to the proximity zone. The method may further include displaying the first visual representation onto the roadway proximate the proximity zone and updating the first visual representation in response to detected changes in the transit-condition data.

An automatic panning system and method adapted for a vehicle with an attached trailer. The automatic panning system comprises an image capturing means adapted to capture image data with a view of the trailer and the automatic panning system is adapted to analyze the image data to identify at least one elongated element of the trailer, project a vector in the image data based on said elongated element, establish at least one reference vector, and identify an interception point of the reference vector and said projected vector.

A method for providing a driver of a vehicle towing a trailer with reversing information, comprising the steps of: capturing image data of a region behind the trailer; measuring an angle between the vehicle and the trailer; generating auxiliary data 5 comprising reversing aid information at least in part in accordance with the angle; generating display data in accordance with the image data and the auxiliary data; and presenting the display data on a display.

An image output device outputs a periphery image of a vehicle to a display; acquires a capture image of the periphery; acquires detection information of the periphery; determines an accuracy factor of detection of each object; calculates a position of the object in the capture image; determines whether objects overlap with each other in the capture image; and sets an image transmission region to at least a part of a region displaying a first object disposed on a near side among the objects determined to overlap with each other in the capture image, generates the periphery image for visually confirming a second object disposed on a far side of the first object, and changes a transmittance defined in the image transmission region higher as the accuracy factor of the detection of the second object is higher.

A display control device includes: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data as a result of imaging by an imaging unit that images a situation around a vehicle; and a display processing unit configured to display, on a display unit, a peripheral image indicating the situation around the vehicle generated based on the image data and also display, on the peripheral image, a first vehicle image indicating a current state of the vehicle and a second vehicle image indicating a future state of the vehicle when the vehicle moves toward a target position and to change a display mode of at least one of the first vehicle image and the second vehicle image according to a remaining distance to the target position of the vehicle.

An adhered-substance detecting apparatus capable of detecting adhered substances such as water droplets, mud, and dust, including those with ambiguous outlines, which adhere to, for example, a lens for an imaging apparatus, and a vehicle system equipped with the adhered-substance detecting apparatus are provided.

A camera device having a first lens forming a first light bundle_B a first sensor arranged within the first light bundle_B, to convert the first light bundle_B, into first image data at least a second lens, forming a second light bundle_B, at least a second sensor arranged within the second light bundle_B to convert the second light bundle_B into second image data. The first sensor and the second sensor are arranged in a common housing. The first sensor is arranged outside the second light bundle_B and the second sensor is arranged outside the first light bundle_B. The first lens and the first sensor and the second lens and the at least second sensor are arranged such that the first light bundle_B and the second light bundle_B overlap at least in part in the housing.