B60R2300/20

METHOD FOR HARMONIZING IMAGES ACQUIRED FROM NON OVERLAPPING CAMERA VIEWS

An image processing method for harmonizing images acquired by a first camera and a second camera connected to a vehicle and arranged in such a way as their fields of view cover a same road space at different times as the vehicle travels along a travel direction is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring by a selected camera, a first image at a first time; selecting a first region of interest bounding a road portion from the first image; sampling the first region of interest; acquiring by the other camera, a second image in such a way that the road portion is included in a second region of interest; sampling the second region of interest; and determining one or more correction parameters for harmonizing images acquired by the first and second cameras, based on a comparison between the image content of the first and second regions of interest.

Trailer angle detection system using rear camera of vehicle

A vehicular trailer assist system includes a control that includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera representative of at least a portion of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. The control determines whether the trailer has been previously hitched to the vehicle. Responsive to the trailer not being previously hitched, the control operates in a trailer initial calibration mode. Responsive to the control recognizing the trailer, the control operates in a recognized trailer calibration mode. The control obtains calibration data unique to the hitched trailer. The control, responsive to obtaining the calibration data, processes image data captured by the camera using the calibration data to locate the current position of the trailer relative to the vehicle. The control, responsive to locating the current position of the trailer relative to the vehicle, determines a trailer angle based on the located current position.

Vehicular trailering assist system

A vehicular trailering assist system includes a vehicle rear backup camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle. A trailer hitched to the vehicle includes a trailer rear camera disposed at a rear portion of the trailer and viewing at least rearward of the trailer. The control displays at a display device in the vehicle a surround view image using an avatar of the vehicle and an avatar of the trailer. The control stitches images derived from image data captured by the vehicle rear backup camera and images derived from the trailer rear camera to provide a transparent trailer view, and the display device displays transparent trailer view video images. Responsive to the vehicle being shifted into a reverse gear, the display device automatically displays rear backup images derived from image data captured by the trailer rear camera.

Holographic display system

A display system for a vehicle includes a display unit mounted to the vehicle and is selectively operable in a first mode as a holographic display and in a second mode as a mirror. Holographic images may include rear view images obtained from a camera or computer generated graphics. Holographic images are displayed at a virtual image plane behind the display to reduce the operator's eyes accommodation.

VEHICULAR REAR BACKUP SYSTEM WITH VIDEO DISPLAY
20230158953 · 2023-05-25 ·

A vehicular rear backup system includes a rear backup digital camera disposed at a vehicle and a display device having a video display screen disposed in an interior cabin of the vehicle and viewable by the driver of the vehicle. Rear backup video images that are derived from image data captured by the rear backup digital camera are displayed on the video display screen no later than two seconds after the driver of the vehicle first changes propulsion of the vehicle during a new ignition cycle to reverse mode to commence a first backup event. Until the first backup event is completed, the video display screen displays rear backup video images. During a backup event of the vehicle, image data captured by the rear backup digital camera is provided to and is processed by an image processor of the system to detect presence of an object rearward of the vehicle.

VEHICULAR OCCUPANT MONITORING SYSTEM USING CENTRALIZED CAMERA WITH EXPANDED VIEW

A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed within a cabin of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system and positionable to view within an interior cabin of the vehicle and positionable to view exterior of the vehicle through at least one window of the vehicle. The system includes an actuator disposed at the vehicle and electrically operable to rotate the camera about an axis relative to the vehicle. Multiple frames of image data captured by the camera as the camera rotates about the axis are processed at an ECU for a plurality of vehicle functions. Respective frames of image data of the multiple frames of captured image data are processed for respective vehicle functions of the plurality of vehicle functions based on respective viewing directions of the camera when the respective frames of image data are captured by the camera.

Display processing device and display control device
11465559 · 2022-10-11 · ·

One aspect of the present disclosure is a display processing device including an acquisition unit, a synthesis unit, and a display unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras provided at a plurality of different positions on a vehicle, the captured images having an overlapping part in which imaging areas of the cameras partially overlap with each other. The synthesis unit combines the captured images acquired by the acquisition unit at the overlapping part of the captured images. The display unit displays the image synthesized by the synthesis unit on a display device mounted on the vehicle. The synthesis unit changes a position of a synthetic boundary, which is a boundary used when combining the captured images, as time passes.

SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING VISUAL AIDS FOR WORKPIECE MANIPULATOR POSITIONING AND MOVEMENT PREVIEW PATH

A virtual guidance apparatus and method assist an operator to maneuver a loader of a work vehicle for material handling of a workpiece. The virtual guidance apparatus includes a guidance control unit, one or more camera devices mounted on the associated work vehicle and operable to obtain an image of a loader of the associated work vehicle, and a display unit operatively coupled with the guidance control unit and displaying on a screen of the display unit that is viewable from an operator's seat of the associated work vehicle visual aids for guiding the operator in operating the loader to position a boom relative to level ground, to position a tool carrier on an end of the boom, to show a preview of a path of the tool carrier and of tools attached with the tool carrier, and to assist in positioning the workpiece load to be manipulated.

METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS IN A MOTOR VEHICLE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS
20220319122 · 2022-10-06 · ·

A control device in a motor vehicle receives a signal from a sensor device which includes at least one image of the current interior situation. The control device generates a superimposition signal containing the at least one image of the current interior situation and transmits the superimposition signal to a display element of a display apparatus. The display apparatus superimposes the at least one image of the current interior situation onto predefined output content output to a user.

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, MOVABLE OBJECT, AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING
20220319187 · 2022-10-06 · ·

An image processing apparatus 10 includes an output unit 14 and a processor 16. The output unit 14 outputs to a movable object 12 information indicating an action to be performed by the movable object 12. The processor 16 determines a first action of the movable object 12 based on a state of a target, the state being sensed in imagery of a region around the movable object 12. The processor 16 causes the output unit 14 to output information indicating the first action. The processor 16 determines a second action of the movable object 12 based on a state of the target, the state being sensed in imagery of the region around the movable object 12, the imagery being captured after the first action of the movable object 12. The processor 16 causes the output unit 14 to output information indicating the second action at a time depending on a speed of a predetermined motion of the target. The predetermined motion of the target is a motion that the target makes before the first action is determined or after the first action of the movable object 12.