A vehicle 1 towing a trailer 4 is fitted with three video cameras 5, 6, 7 fitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display 11. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit 10, is also presented to the driver on the display 11 as guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unit 10 is also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view.

An imaging system includes a digital camera having a sensor (such as a charge coupled device), a first lens directing a first image onto a first region of the sensor, a second lens directing a second image onto a second region of the sensor, and a third lens directing a third image onto a third region of the sensor. A display screen displays to a driver of the vehicle the first image, and a processing unit performs stereoscopic image analysis on data originating from the second and third regions. A fourth lens may be used to direct a fourth image onto a fourth region of the sensor, and the processing unit performs calculations on data from the fourth region for the detection of movement of the vehicle.

A cruise-assist image generation device includes a steering-angle information acquisition unit, an additional line generation unit generating a cruise assist additional line corresponding to acquired steering angle information and formed by combination of a given number of segments, and an additional line superimposing unit superimposing the generated cruise assist additional line on a taken image of the vehicle periphery to obtain a composite image. The additional line generation unit generates respective curved lines forming at least some of the segments by quadratic curve approximation using coordinate data corresponding to the acquired steering angle information and including coordinates of points representing each segment, and generating respective straight lines forming any remaining segments by collinear approximation using coordinate data corresponding to the acquired steering angle information.

A display controller includes an acquisition part that acquires a distance between a regulatory sign installed in a region ahead of a vehicle and the vehicle, and a display control part that causes a display part to display an image corresponding to the regulatory sign on the basis of the distance acquired by the acquisition part, wherein the display control part begins to display the image corresponding to the regulatory sign in response the distance between the regulatory sign and the vehicle becoming equal to or less than a first distance when the regulatory sign indicates Stop, and beings to display the image corresponding to the regulatory sign in response to the distance between the regulatory sign and the vehicle becoming equal to or less than a second distance, which is less than the first distance, when the regulatory sign indicates No Entry.

A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors.

The present disclosure relates to a battery-pack control system using short-range wireless communication comprises at least one battery module, installed inside the battery pack; at least one first wireless communication module, installed in the battery module, configured to receive control signals from external sources and to transmit management data of the battery module to external systems, and communicating through NFC (Near Field Communication)-based short-range wireless communication; at least one second wireless communication module, installed inside the battery pack, positioned close to the first wireless communication module(s), and communicating with the first wireless communication module(s) through NFC-based short-range wireless communication; and a Battery Management System (BMS) module, installed in the battery pack, configured to communicate with the vehicle's Electronic Control Unit (ECU) via CAN (Controller Area Network) communication, and to communicate with the first wireless communication module, the second wireless communication module, and external electronic devices through NFC communication.

A display controller includes a receiving part that receives setting of a vehicle height of a vehicle, an acquisition part that acquires a height limit of a vehicle height indicated by a vehicle height restriction regulatory sign installed in a region ahead of the vehicle, and a display control part that cause a display part to display an image corresponding to the regulatory sign, wherein the display control part causes the display part to display the image if the set height of the vehicle received by the receiving part is greater than the height limit of the vehicle height acquired by the acquisition part, and does not cause the display part to display the image if the set height of the vehicle is equal to or less than the height limit of the vehicle height.

A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors.

The disclosure relates to a method for determining object information relating to an object in an environment of a vehicle having a camera. The method includes: capturing the environment with the camera from a first position; changing the position of the camera; capturing the environment with the camera from a second position; determining object information relating to an object by selecting at least one first pixel in the first image and at least one second pixel in the second image, by selecting the first pixel and the second pixel such that they are assigned to the same object point of the object, and determining object coordinates of the assigned object point by triangulation. Changing the position of the camera is brought about by controlling an active actuator system in the vehicle. The actuator system adjusts the camera by an adjustment distance without changing a driving condition of the vehicle.

An eye blink detection method and system are disclosed. The eye blink detection method comprises: photographing a face using a DVS camera to obtain a stream of DVS pixels; integrating DVS pixels of the stream of DVS pixels to form a plurality of DVS frames, wherein each of the plurality of DVS frames comprises a plurality of first and second color pixels, each being associated with one or more DVS pixels indicating a brightening event and each of the second color pixel being associated with one or more DVS pixels indicating a darkening event; and determining whether there exists an eye blink action in a DVS frame of the plurality of DVS frames, wherein the determining comprises: determining whether there exists a pattern in which a first and second color region are distributed one above the other in an eye region of the at least one DVS frame.