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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100265325 | LANE DEPARTURE WARNING SYSTEM A lane departure warning system (LDWS) installed on vehicles is revealed. The LDWS includes a camera that captures road images and the data of images is sent to an electronic control unit (ECU) for processing and recognition. The ECU is directly connected with a global ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100100268 | ENHANCED CLEAR PATH DETECTION IN THE PRESENCE OF TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE INDICATOR A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing analysis of a plurality of images generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the images. The images are analyzed including determining a clear path upon which a potentia... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100097455 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING A VANISHING POINT A method for estimating a vanishing point in a roadway using a current image generated by a camera on a vehicle includes defining an exemplary vanishing point for each of a plurality of sample images, identifying features within each of the plurality of sample images, m... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100097458 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING AN EXAMPLE-BASED APPROACH A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle using a current image generated by a camera includes defining an exemplary clear path for each of a plurality of sample images, identifying features within each of the plurality of sample images, monitoring the... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100097457 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION WITH PATCH SMOOTHING APPROACH A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing analysis of an image generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the image, identifying through patch-based clear path detection analysis of the image a first patch withi... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100097456 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING A HIERACHICAL APPROACH A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle using an image generated by a camera includes monitoring the image, and utilizing a first patch-based analysis of the image including dividing the image into a plurality of patches, and analyzing each patch to ... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100098297 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING SEGMENTATION-BASED METHOD A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle by segmenting an image generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the image, analyzing the image with a plurality of analysis methods to segment a region of the image that cannot ... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20090295917 | PIXEL-BASED TEXTURE-LESS CLEAR PATH DETECTION A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing analysis of a plurality of images generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the images wherein each image comprises a plurality of pixels, utilizing a texture-less proc... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090167844 | Mobile peripheral monitor A standard camera (12) picks up a standard image Ib, and a reference camera (14) picks up a reference image Ir. A flat area IIf is extracted from the standard image Ib and the reference image Ir. An ed... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090147083 | OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE An imaging system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor and a control. The imaging sensor is operable to capture an image of a scene occurring exteriorly of the vehicle. The control is responsive to the imaging sensor. The imaging system may be associated with a side... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20080198224 | NIGHT VISION DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE In a night vision arrangement for a motor vehicle in which a camera captures an infra-red image of the roadway in front of the vehicle, a video signal generated by the camera is processed by a signal processor so that the field of view of the image displayed by a displa... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080088702 | CAMERA SYSTEM, METHOD FOR OPERATION OF A CAMERA SYSTEM AND SENSOR DEVICE OF A CAMERA SYSTEM The invention concerns a camera system, especially a camera system in a camera-based analysis system and/or assistance system of a vehicle, comprising a camera with an optical beam path (12), which has at least one optical element to guide image information to a ... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080037828 | Apparatus and Method for Displaying Image of View in Front of Vehicle An apparatus and a method for displaying an image of a view in front of a vehicle, each of which detects edges in a monochrome image obtained by a camera, which is mounted on the vehicle and photographs a view in front of the vehicle, to generate an edge image indicativ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070299572 | DRIVING-OPERATION ASSIST AND RECORDING MEDIUM A vehicle-operation assist includes a circumferential-state imager for imaging a circumferential state of a vehicle with a camera and generating a circumferential-state image; a synthetic-image generator for generating a synthetic image by superimposing on the circumfer... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070091173 | Vehicular lane monitoring system utilizing front and rear cameras A lane monitoring system deployed on a vehicle is provided for monitoring the position of the vehicle relative to a lane in which the vehicle is traveling. The system comprises a front camera for capturing front lane image data relating to an area substantially to the f... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070013793 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a QV converter that converts an electric charge accumulated in an effective pixel portion into an analog video signal and also converts an electric charge of a shaded pixel portion into an analog shaded signal, a signal processing ... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20070002136 | Method and apparatus for controlling color registration sensors A method and apparatus for controlling registration sensors are provided, in which a transfer unit transfers an electrostatic latent image onto a printing medium, at least one registration sensor senses image alignment errors by irradiating light to the transfer unit to... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060215020 | Visual recognition apparatus, methods, and programs for vehicles Around-vehicle visual recognition apparatus, methods, and programs acquire circumstances of a vehicle, including the vehicle's location and cause a camera to take images around the vehicle. The apparatus, methods, and programs determine at least one first area around th... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20050024491 | Obstacle detection apparatus and method A plurality of cameras respectively input an image from different camera positions. The plurality of cameras is on a moving object. An image memory stores a plurality of images input by the plurality of cameras. An image transformation unit transforms one image input by... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050018043 | Obstacle detection apparatus and method A plurality of cameras respectively input an image from different camera positions. The plurality of cameras is on a moving object. An image memory stores a plurality of images input by the plurality of cameras. An image transformation unit transforms one image input by... | 01/27/2005 |
