Systems and methods for detecting road obstructions
OwnerJazael Garzon Aztatziinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle having a camera disposed at a vehicle front portion is disclosed. The camera may be configured to capture images of a geographical area that may be occluded from a driver field of view caused by presence of a vehicle vertical body-mounted pillar when the vehicle traverses a road curve. The vehicle may further include a processor configured to obtain a trigger signal and activate the camera responsive to obtaining the trigger signal. The processor may be further configured to obtain the images from the camera and determine a road obstruction presence in the geographical area based on the obtained images. The processor may output a visual alert notification or an audible alert notification responsive to determining the road obstruction presence.
Claims12
A vehicle comprising:
- a camera disposed at a vehicle front portion, wherein the camera is configured to capture images of a geographical area that is occluded from a driver field of view caused by a presence of a vehicle structural component when the vehicle traverses a road curve, and wherein the camera is further configured to continuously focus on an end of the road curve as the vehicle traverses the road curve;
- a display;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled with the camera, wherein the processor is configured to:
- obtain a trigger signal;
- activate the camera responsive to obtaining the trigger signal;
- obtain the images from the camera responsive to activating the camera;
- determine a road obstruction presence in the geographical area based on applying an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based image processing algorithm to analyze the images;
- generate an Augmented Reality (AR) image by overlaying a visual alert notification on the images captured by the camera, responsive to determining the road obstruction presence;
- and
- display the AR image upon the display,
- wherein the vehicle structural component is a vehicle vertical body-mounted pillar, and
- wherein the vehicle is a left-hand drive vehicle, and further comprising:
- a steering wheel;
- and
- a steering wheel sensor configured to:
- detect steering wheel rotation;
- generate the trigger signal when the steering wheel is rotated in an anticlockwise direction that causes the vertical body-mounted pillar to obstruct the driver field of view;
- and
- transmit the trigger signal to the processor.
A vehicle comprising:
- a camera disposed at a vehicle front portion, wherein the camera is configured to capture images of a geographical area that is occluded from a driver field of view caused by a presence of a vehicle structural component when the vehicle traverses a road curve, and wherein the camera is further configured to continuously focus on an end of the road curve as the vehicle traverses the road curve;
- a display;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled with the camera, wherein the processor is configured to:
- obtain a trigger signal;
- activate the camera responsive to obtaining the trigger signal;
- obtain the images from the camera responsive to activating the camera;
- determine a road obstruction presence in the geographical area based on applying an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based image processing algorithm to analyze the images;
- generate an Augmented Reality (AR) image by overlaying a visual alert notification on the images captured by the camera, responsive to determining the road obstruction presence;
- and
- display the AR image upon the display,
- wherein the vehicle structural component is a vehicle vertical body-mounted pillar, and
- wherein the vehicle is a right-hand drive vehicle, and further comprising:
- a steering wheel;
- and
- a steering wheel sensor configured to:
- detect steering wheel rotation;
- generate the trigger signal when the steering wheel is rotated in a clockwise direction that causes the vertical body-mounted pillar to obstruct the driver field of view;
- and
- transmit the trigger signal to the processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.