System to aid a driver to determine whether to change lanes
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsSrinivas Gutta, Miroslav Trajkovic, Antonio Colmenarez
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Abstract
A vehicular vision system to aid a driver of a vehicle to determine whether it is safe to change lanes includes a camera having a field of view such that the field of view corresponds to at least a portion of an area proximate the vehicle. The system also includes an object identifier electrically coupled to the camera, a distance determiner which determines a distance of the object which is in the field of the camera, and a display electrically coupled to the camera which displays an image generated by the camera and provides an indication of the type of object which is in the field of view of the camera and the distance of the object from the vehicle.
Claims20
A vehicular vision system to aid a driver of a vehicle in determining whether to change lanes, comprising:
- at least one camera having a field of view, the at least one camera being positioned on the vehicle such that the field of view corresponds to at least a portion of an area proximate the vehicle;
- a distance determiner electronically coupled to the at least one camera which determines a distance of an object in the field of view of the at least one camera from the vehicle;
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- a display electrically coupled to the at least one camera which displays an image generated by said at least one camera and displays in alpha-numeric form the distance of the object from the vehicle which is in the field of view of the at least one camera.
A vehicular vision system to aid a driver of a vehicle in determining whether to change lanes, comprising:
- at least one camera having a field of view, the at least one camera being positioned on the vehicle such that the field of view corresponds to at least a portion of an area proximate the vehicle;
- a distance determiner electronically coupled to the at least one camera which determines a distance of an object in the field of view of the at least one camera from the vehicle;
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- an object identifier electrically coupled to the at least one camera, the object identifier identifying the object which is in the field of view of the at least one camera and determining a type of the object for displaying said type as text.
A vehicular vision system to aid a driver of a vehicle in determining whether to change lanes, comprising:
- at least one camera having a field of view, the at least one camera being positioned on the vehicle such that the field of view corresponds to at least a portion of an area proximate the vehicle;
- an object identifier electrically coupled to the at least one camera, the object identifier identifying an object which is in the field of view of the at least one camera and determining a type of the object;
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- a display electrically coupled to the at least one camera which displays an image generated by said at least one camera and displays said type as text on said display.
A vehicular vision system to aid a driver of a vehicle in determining whether to change lanes, comprising:
- at least one camera having a field of view, the at least one camera being positioned on the vehicle such that the field of view corresponds to at least a portion of an area proximate the vehicle;
- a distance determiner electronically coupled to the at least one camera which determines a distance of an object in the field of view of the at least one camera from the vehicle;
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- an object classifier electrically coupled to the at least one camera, the object classifier analyzing and classifying a type of the object which is in the field of view of the at least one camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.