Vehicle with a gated camera and method for operating a vehicle utilizing a gated camera
AssigneeTORC Robotics, Inc.
InventorFridtjof Stein
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a vehicle, wherein a dark section of a roadway in a longitudinal direction in front of the vehicle is illuminated by means of at least one gated camera arranged on the vehicle and at least one light source synchronized therewith and arranged on the vehicle, wherein the illumination is tracked according to an ego speed of the vehicle.
Claims10
A method for operating a vehicle, the method comprising:
- identifying a dark section of a roadway in a longitudinal direction in front of the vehicle;
- illuminating the dark section of roadway by using at least one gated camera arranged on the vehicle and at least one light source synchronized therewith and arranged on the vehicle;
- and
- tracking the illumination according to an ego speed of the vehicle.
A vehicle comprising at least one gated camera oriented forward in a longitudinal direction and at least one light source synchronized therewith, wherein the vehicle is configured to
- identify a dark section of a roadway in the longitudinal direction in front of the vehicle;
- illuminate the dark section of the roadway by using the least one gated camera arranged on the vehicle and the least one light source arranged on the vehicle;
- and
- track the illumination of the dark section of the roadway according to an ego speed of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.