The invention relates to a device for assisting night-time driving of a vehicle, comprising at least one display and a night vision system capable of capturing images under conditions of darkness and transmitting them to said display, said display being capable of displaying a graphics page (31) comprising a first area (31.1) and second area (31.2) arranged next to said first area (31.1), the display (23) having a first display mode in which said first area (31.1) comprises operating information of the vehicle, characterised in that the display is capable, in response to receiving an alarm signal coming from a night vision system, of displaying, in the second area (31.2), images coming from the night vision system.

Auxiliary safety device for a vehicle, comprising a housing suitable to be mounted on board of the vehicle; a lighting assembly which is at least partially accommodated in the housing and comprises at least a plurality of lights arranged to illuminate a space ahead of the vehicle; a video assembly which is at least partially accommodated in the housing and comprises one or more video cameras monitoring at least part of the environment outside the vehicle to detect one or more of humans, animals or objects ahead of the vehicle, wherein the video assembly comprises at least one thermal video camera which detects at least humans/animals ahead of the vehicle under poor visibility conditions; and a controller which at least causes the plurality of lights to flash or strobe at a human, or animal or obstacle detected by the video assembly.

The present invention relates to a method and an image processing system for determining the color of a street marking, by: capturing an image of a street, detecting a street marking as a set of pixels provided by the image, wherein the pixels include at least two different pieces of color information, determining a color score for the street marking by comparing said at least two different pieces of color information, and determining the color of the street marking by comparing the color score to at least one threshold value.

A vehicular vision system includes a driver-side exterior mirror assembly, a passenger-side mirror assembly and an interior mirror assembly. The fields of view of the mirror reflective elements of the exterior mirror assemblies are adjustable by the driver via a respective actuator. The exterior mirror assemblies include respective cameras that each have a respective rearward field of view that supplements the field of view of the mirror reflective element when viewed by the driver of the vehicle. A video display is disposed behind the mirror reflector of an interior mirror reflective element such that displayed video images are viewable through the mirror reflector of the interior mirror reflective element. The video display includes a driver-side display portion and a passenger-side display portion that each display images derived from image data captured by the respective camera while not displaying images derived from image data captured by the other camera.

A method and an apparatus for detecting a pedestrian by a vehicle during night driving are provided, in which the apparatus includes: a first camera configured to take a first image including color information of a vicinity of the vehicle during night driving; a second camera configured to take a second image including thermal distribution information of the vicinity of the vehicle; a pedestrian detector configured to detect a non-pedestrian area by using the color information from the first image and detect a pedestrian area by excluding the non-pedestrian area from the second image; and a display configured to match and display the pedestrian area on the second image.

A camera mount for mounting a camera inside a windshield of a vehicle. The camera includes a lens mount and a camera housing. The front tip of the lens mount is constrained to be in close proximity to or constrained to contact the inside of the windshield for different rake angles of the windshield.

Vehicles and methods for providing visual assistance to a driver during low ambient light conditions are provided. The vehicle includes at least one headlight, a visible light detection system configured to output a vision signal, a heads-up display configured to generate one or more images, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The vision signal is indicative of an area illuminated by visible light generated by the at least one headlight. The memory modules store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to receive an object signal representing a three-dimensional representation of an environment located in front of the vehicle.

A display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a camera capturing images of a scene in front of the motor vehicle. The camera transmits first video signals indicative of the captured images. A video processor is communicatively coupled to the camera and receives the first video signals. The video processor processes the first video signals to make objects in the first video signals easier to see, thereby producing second video signals. The video processor transmits the second video signals. A head up display system is communicatively coupled to the video processor and receives the second video signals. The head up display system reflects a light field off of a windshield of the motor vehicle such that the reflection is visible to a driver of the vehicle as a virtual image. The light field is dependent upon the second video signals.

A display control device for a vehicle includes: a display controller that displays a determined display image including a display of a traveling state of the vehicle on a windshield of the vehicle; a visibility reducing area detector that detects a presence or an absence of a visibility reducing area on the windshield, the visibility reducing area reduces visibility of a driver; and a gaze detector that detects a gaze of the driver. When the visibility reducing area is detected, but the display of the traveling state does not overlap with the visibility reducing area, and the driver keeps the gaze on the visibility reducing area, the display controller displays, on the visibility reducing area, a traveling direction information necessary for driving the vehicle.

A method of image enhancement for a vehicle vision system includes providing a camera at the vehicle and providing a processor operable to process image data. Multiple frames of image data are captured with the camera, and contrast is enhanced in image data by tone mapping. As the vehicle moves, contrast thresholds are tracked within the captured frames of image data with respect to image flow caused by the vehicle's movement. Image data of a first frame of captured image data may be passed through two individual image transfer functions to generate a first transferred frame of image data. The first transferred frame may be blended with a second frame of image data. Presence of an object is detected in the field of view of the camera, and an output is generated responsive to detection of the object present in the field of view of the camera.