System and method to exhibit information after a pedestrian crash incident
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsRathan H. P, Arun K. Murthy
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Abstract
One general aspect includes a method to display information after a pedestrian crash incident, the method including: receiving, at a controller, an indication of a pedestrian crash incident; in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, via the controller, deploying a pedestrian protection apparatus to raise a portion of a hood of a vehicle; in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, via the controller, activating one or more sensors to capture one or more images of at least a portion of a vehicle environment; adapting the captured image, via the controller, to be exhibited on a display; and exhibiting the captured images, via the controller, on the display.
Claims20
A method to display information after a pedestrian crash incident, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a controller, an indication of a pedestrian crash incident;
- in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, via the controller, deploying a pedestrian protection apparatus to raise a portion of a hood of a vehicle;
- in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, via the controller, activating a plurality of cameras to capture one or more images of at least a portion of a vehicle environment, wherein at least one of the plurality of cameras is mounted to an exterior of a bumper of the vehicle to capture a first image of an area around the front of the bumper and at least one of the plurality of cameras is mounted to an exterior of a roof of the vehicle at a location adjacent to a top of a windshield to capture a second image of a hood of the vehicle;
- formatting, via the controller, the first and second images such that they can be exhibited by a display;
- combining, via the controller, the first and second images into a combined image, wherein the combined image is a reconstruction of at least part of the environment out front of the vehicle;
- outputting the combined image, via the controller, to the display to be exhibited;
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- exhibiting the combined image, via the controller, on the display.
A system to display information after a pedestrian crash incident, the system comprising:
- a memory configured to comprise a program and a controller configured to execute the program, wherein the program enables the controller to:
- receive an indication of a pedestrian crash incident;
- in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, deploy a pedestrian protection apparatus to raise a rear portion of a hood of a vehicle;
- in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, activate a plurality of cameras to capture one or more images of at least a portion of a vehicle environment, wherein at least one of the plurality of cameras is mounted to an exterior of a bumper of the vehicle to capture a first image of an area around the front of the bumper and at least one of the plurality of cameras is mounted to an exterior of a roof of the vehicle at a location adjacent to a top of a windshield to capture a second image of a hood of the vehicle;
- format the first and second images such that they can be exhibited by a display;
- combine the first and second images into a combined image, wherein the combined image is a reconstruction of at least part of the environment out front of the vehicle;
- output the combined image to the display to be exhibited;
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- exhibit the combined image on the display.
A non-transitory and machine-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions adapted to display information after a pedestrian crash incident, which when provided to a controller and executed thereby, causes the controller to:
- receive an indication of a pedestrian crash incident;
- in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, deploy a pedestrian protection apparatus to raise a rear portion of a hood of a vehicle;
- in response to the pedestrian crash incident indication, activate a plurality of cameras to capture one or more images of at least a portion of a vehicle environment, wherein the at least one of the plurality of cameras is mounted to an exterior of a bumper of the vehicle to capture a first image of an area around the front of the bumper and at least one of the plurality of cameras is mounted to an exterior of a roof of the vehicle at a location adjacent to a top of a windshield to capture a second image of a hood of the vehicle;
- format the first and second images such that they can be exhibited by a display;
- combine the first and second images into a combined image, wherein the combined image is a reconstruction of at least part of the environment out front of the vehicle;
- output the combined image to the display to be exhibited;
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- exhibit the combined image on the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.