Optical image monitoring system and method for vehicles
AssigneeAppareo Systems, LLC
InventorsRobert V. Weinmann, Joshua N. Gelinske, Robert M. Allen, Johan A. Wiig
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Abstract
A system and method of acquiring information from an image of a vehicle in real time wherein at least one imaging device with advanced light metering capabilities is placed aboard a vehicle, a computer processor means is provided to control the imaging device and the advanced light metering capabilities, the advanced light metering capabilities are used to capture an image of at least a portion of the vehicle, and image recognition algorithms are used to identify the current state or position of the corresponding portion of the vehicle.
Claims1
A method of acquiring information from an image of at least a portion of a vehicle comprising the steps of:
- providing at least one imaging device aboard said vehicle;
- providing a computer processor connected to controlling said imaging device;
- capturing an image of said at least a portion of a vehicle with said imaging device;
- inputting said image to said computer processor;
- identifying with said computer processor a state of said image;
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- said computer processor providing an output corresponding to said image state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.