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US 2018/0120858 A1Published application
Pedestrian face detection
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsOswaldo Perez Barrera, Alvaro Jimenez Hernandez
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Abstract
A controller for a vehicle is programmed to detect a pedestrian in an image received from a camera, determine whether a face of the pedestrian is present in the image, and cause the vehicle to change lanes based on the absence of the face.
Claims20
A controller for a vehicle, programmed to:
- detect a pedestrian in a camera image;
- determine whether a face of the pedestrian is present in the image;
- and
- cause the vehicle to change lanes based on an absence of the face.
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A control system comprising:
- a camera having a field of vision including an area in front of and outside a forward-projected width of a vehicle;
- and
- a controller programmed to:
- detect a pedestrian in the area based on an image received from the camera;
- determine whether a face of the pedestrian is present in the image;
- and
- cause the vehicle to change lanes based on an absence of the face.
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A method comprising:
- detecting a pedestrian in a camera image;
- determining whether a face of the pedestrian is present in the image;
- and
- causing a vehicle to change lanes based on an absence of the face.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.