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US 10,708,504 B2Granted
Vehicle camera system
AssigneeJaguar Land Rover Limited
InventorMartin Edney
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Abstract
A vehicle camera system comprising: a camera arranged to capture image data from a field of view surrounding a host vehicle; a display arranged to display the image data; and a processor arranged to: determine the presence of obstructions in the field of view; and control the display to display the image data in dependence on the detection of obstructions in the field of view.
Claims17
A processor for a vehicle camera system having one or more cameras, the processor configured to:
- receive image data captured by a camera of the camera system, the image data providing a camera field of view surrounding a host vehicle, wherein the camera field of view is from, a first position local to the host vehicle and comprises a view perpendicular to a facing direction of the host vehicle;
- determine a presence of an obstruction using camera system image data captured by the camera of the camera system;
- determine whether a condition is satisfied, wherein satisfaction of the condition requires a determination that the obstruction obstructs a portion of a field of view of a driver of the host vehicle, wherein the driver field of view is from a second position local to the host vehicle, different from the first position, and the obstructed portion of the field of view of the driver is to a side of the host vehicle and is visible from the camera image data;
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- control a display to display the image data comprising the obstructed portion of the field of view of the driver to at least the driver in dependence on determining that the condition is satisfied, wherein the processor is configured to not display the image data when the condition is not satisfied,
- wherein the processor determines the presence of the obstruction using an object detection algorithm that compares the camera system image data with a known reference having a reference field of view that comprises an empty space of a predefined depth and the determination of the presence of the obstruction is made in dependence on differences found in the comparison.
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A vehicle camera system comprising:
- one or more cameras, including a first camera configured to capture image data surrounding a host vehicle, the image data providing a camera field of view surrounding a host vehicle, wherein the camera field of view is from a first position local to the host vehicle and comprises a view perpendicular to a facing direction of the host vehicle;
- a display configured to display the image data;
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- a processor arranged to:
- determine a presence of an obstruction using camera system image data captured by the camera of the camera system;
- determine whether a condition is satisfied, wherein satisfaction of the condition requires a determination that the obstruction obstructs a portion of a field of view of a driver of the host vehicle, wherein the driver field of view is from a second position local to the host vehicle, different from the first position, and the obstructed portion of the field of view of the driver is to a side of the host vehicle and is visible from the camera image data;
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- control the display to display the image data comprising the obstructed portion of the field of view of the driver to at least the driver in dependence on determining that the condition is satisfied, wherein the processor is configured to not display the image data when the condition is not satisfied,
- wherein the processor determines the presence of the obstruction using an object detection algorithm that compares the camera system image data with a known reference having a reference field of view that comprises an empty space of a predefined depth and the determination of the presence of the obstruction is made in dependence on differences found in the comparison.
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A method for selectively displaying information to a driver of a host vehicle, the method comprising:
- receiving image data captured by a camera of a vehicle camera system having one or more cameras, the image data providing a camera field of view surrounding the host vehicle, wherein the camera field of view is from a first position local to the host vehicle and comprises a view perpendicular to a facing direction of the host vehicle;
- determining a presence of an obstruction using camera system image data captured by the camera of the vehicle camera system, and using an object detection algorithm wherein the camera system image data is compared with a known reference having a reference field of view that comprises an empty space of a predefined depth, and wherein determining the presence of the obstruction is made in dependence on differences found in the comparison;
- determining whether a condition is satisfied, wherein satisfaction of the condition requires a determination that the obstruction obstructs a portion of a field of view of the driver of the host vehicle, wherein the driver field of view is from a second position local to the host vehicle, different from the first position, and the obstructed portion of the field of view of the driver is to a side of the host vehicle and is visible from the camera image data;
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- displaying the image data comprising the obstructed portion of the field of view of the driver to at least the driver in dependence on determining that the condition is satisfied, wherein the image data is not displayed when the condition is not satisfied.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.