Camera-assisted use of towed equipment
AssigneeToyota Motor North America, Inc.
InventorSAI PRITHVI GADDE
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for automatically adjusting a vehicle payload, comprising: an image sensor mounted to capture images of a vehicle payload; a cargo monitoring circuit coupled to receive captured images of the vehicle payload from the image sensor and configured to process the received captured images to detect a payload characteristic; a processing device configured to determine a payload status based on the payload characteristic and to generate a correction signal if the determined payload status indicates the payload is out of specification; and an actuator coupled to receive the correction signal from the processing device, the actuator configured to perform an action to adjust a payload characteristic in response to the correction signal.
Claims20
A system for automatically adjusting a vehicle payload, comprising:
- an image sensor mounted to capture images of a vehicle payload;
- a cargo monitoring circuit coupled to receive captured images of the vehicle payload from the image sensor and configured to process the received captured images to detect a payload characteristic;
- a processing device configured to determine a payload status based on the payload characteristic and to generate a correction signal if the determined payload status indicates the payload is out of specification;
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- an actuator coupled to receive the correction signal from the processing device, the actuator configured to perform an action to adjust a payload characteristic in response to the correction signal.
A method for automatically adjusting a vehicle payload, comprising:
- capturing images of a vehicle payload using an image sensor;
- receiving the captured images of the vehicle payload from the image sensor and processing the received captured images to detect a payload characteristic;
- determining a payload status based on the payload characteristic and generating a correction signal if the determined payload status indicates the payload is out of specification;
- and
- transmitting the correction signal to an actuator configured to perform an action to adjust a payload characteristic in response to the correction signal.
A vehicle payload system for automatically adjusting a vehicle payload, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising
- receiving captured images of a vehicle payload from an image sensor mounted on the vehicle and processing the received captured images to detect a payload characteristic;
- determining a payload status based on the payload characteristic and generating a correction signal if the determined payload status indicates the payload is out of specification;
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- transmitting the correction signal to an actuator configured to perform an action to adjust a payload characteristic in response to the correction signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.