Surround view monitoring apparatus and method with fault tolerance
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorMin Chul Kang
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Abstract
A surround view monitoring apparatus with fault tolerance and an operating method thereof. The surround view monitoring apparatus includes a plurality of SVM cameras, a SVM controller and an SVM display. The plurality of SVM cameras are configured to capture surrounding areas of a vehicle. The SVM controller is configured to determine whether at least one of the plurality of SVM cameras has failed and to generate a surround view image based on images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras. The SVM display is configured to display the generated surround view image.
Claims13
A surround view monitoring (SVM) apparatus with fault tolerance, the surround view monitoring apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of SVM cameras configured to capture images of surrounding areas of a vehicle;
- a SVM controller configured to determine whether at least one of the plurality of SVM cameras has failed, the SVM controller further configured to generate a surround view image based on images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras;
- and
- a SVM display configured to display the generated surround view image,
- wherein the plurality of SVM cameras comprises a front SVM camera for capturing a front of the vehicle, a rear SVM camera for capturing a rear of the vehicle, a left SVM camera for capturing a left of the vehicle, and a right SVM camera for capturing a right of the vehicle, and
- wherein
- (i) in response to determining that the front SVM camera has failed, the SVM controller is configured to generate the surround view image by utilizing images captured by a front camera included in a built-in cam together with the images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras excluding the front SVM camera,
- (ii) in response to determining that the rear SVM camera has failed, the SVM controller is configured to generate the surround view image by utilizing images captured by a rear camera included in the built-in cam together with the images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras excluding the rear SVM camera, and
- (iii) in response to determining that all of the plurality of SVM cameras have failed, the SVM controller is configured to reset the plurality of SVM cameras.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program thereon executed by a processor of a surround view monitoring (SVM) apparatus with fault tolerance to perform a method, the method comprising:
- determining whether at least one of a plurality of SVM cameras has failed, wherein the plurality of SVM cameras comprises a front SVM camera for capturing a front of a vehicle, a rear SVM camera for capturing a rear of the vehicle, a left SVM camera for capturing a left of the vehicle, and a right SVM camera for capturing a right of the vehicle;
- based on determining that the front SVM camera has failed, generating a surround view image based on images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras excluding the front SVM camera that has failed;
- and
- based on determining that the rear SVM camera has failed, generating the surround view image based on images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras excluding the rear SVM camera that has failed;
- and
- displaying the generated surround view image on an SVM display,
- wherein generating the surround view image comprises, generating the surround view image by utilizing images captured by a built-in cam including a front camera and a rear camera, together with the images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras, wherein the images captured by the built-in cam include a front image captured by the front camera included in the built-in cam and a rear image captured by the rear camera included in the built-in cam, and wherein generating the surround view image includes i) based on determining that the front SVM camera has failed, generating the surround view image using the front image together with the images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras excluding the front SVM camera, and ii) based on determining that the rear SVM camera has failed, generating the surround view image using the rear image together with the images captured by the plurality of SVM cameras excluding the rear SVM camera,
- based on determining that all of the plurality of SVM cameras have failed,
- resetting the plurality of SVM cameras,
- transmitting at least one of the front image captured by the front camera or the rear image captured by the rear camera to the SVM display, and
- displaying the transmitted image on the SVM display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.