US 10,311,310 B2 · Method and apparatus for providing increased obstacle visibility

Abstract

A surround view system includes at least at least one camera pair formed by two cameras with overlapping fields of view adapted to generate camera images with an overlapping area. The system also includes and a processing unit configured to compute surround view images including overlapping areas with respect to each camera and to extract features from the computed surround view images resulting in binary images for each overlapping area. Priority in visualization is given to the camera image of the overlapping area generated by the camera of the respective camera pair where a calculated sum of binary values within the resulting binary image is highest.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A surround view system comprising:

at least one camera pair formed by two cameras with overlapping fields of view adapted to generate camera images with an overlapping area;
and
a processing unit configured to compute surround view images including overlapping areas with respect to each camera and to extract at least one edge from the computed surround view images resulting in a pair of binary images for each overlapping area, wherein each edge is represented in each binary image with a logical binary value of 1;
wherein priority in visualization is given to the camera image of the overlapping area, generated by the camera of the respective camera pair where a calculated sum of the binary values within the resulting binary image is highest of the calculated sums of binary values of the pair of binary images.

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Facts

Application

15/613,929Filed 5 Jun 2017 · continuation

Priority

EP 141963274 Dec 2014

Published

US 2017/0270371 A121 Sep 2017

Granted

4 Jun 2019

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

G06V 20/56
Context or environment of the image: exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
G06F 18/251
Fusion techniques: of input or preprocessed data
G06F 18/253
Fusion techniques: of extracted features
G06V 20/58
Exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle: recognition of moving objects or obstacles, e.g. vehicles or pedestrians;…

Method and apparatus for providing increased obstacle visibility

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Method and apparatus for providing increased obstacle visibility

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Abstract

Claims9