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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE CAMERA An apparatus and method for adaptively controlling an angle of a camera when the height of a vehicle is changed are provided. The apparatus for controlling a vehicle camera includes at least one sensor which detects variation in height of the vehicle, a rotational angle... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127312 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS Provided is a vehicle periphery image generation apparatus for generating a vehicle periphery image which can provide a wide view of vehicle periphery at a time. The vehicle periphery image generation apparatus includes an image acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle pe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127311 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AN IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM IN A MOTOR VEHICLE A method for calibrating an image recording system in a motor vehicle, image data being recorded via a camera system from an area which is illuminated by a lighting unit of the motor vehicle, and a modulation of the radiation emitted by the lighting unit being performed... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127309 | OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM, AND OBSTACLE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE Provided is an object recognition system. The object recognition system recognizes an object in an ROI of a source image. The object recognition system includes an image change unit and an ROI detection unit. The image change unit receives the source image, and changes ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105640 | VEHICLE INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM An information display system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly disposed at the interior cabin of a vehicle and a video display screen disposed in the interior rearview mirror assembly. The video display screen is operable to display video imag... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105635 | AUTOMOTIVE IMAGING SYSTEM FOR RECORDING EXCEPTION EVENTS A motor vehicle system for automatically reporting exception events, comprising: one or more digital cameras, at least one digital camera having a primary function; an image memory system for storing digital images; means for detecting exception events; and a wireless c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105643 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM When displaying a peripheral image in the case where a traveling speed of a vehicle is lower than a predetermined threshold value, it is possible to provide a user with a state of a necessary area of the vehicle without switching a display mode. In an image display syst... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105638 | CAMERA SYSTEM FOR LARGE VEHICLES A vehicle-borne camera-based observation system for monitoring areas adjacent a vehicle or passenger vehicle, such as a bus or schoolbus, is disclosed, to provide safer operation for passersby, including for children, and driver convenience. The system includes several ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105641 | INTERIOR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes a mirror mounting button adhesively attached at an in-cabin surface of a vehicle windshield, and an interior rearview mirror assembly including a mirror head and a mirror support. The mirror head includes a mirro... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105637 | Multi-Level Video Processing Within A Vehicular Communication Network A system for performing multi-level video processing within a vehicle includes a pre-processing module for determining an encoding mode and enabling one or more levels of encoding based on the encoding mode. The pre-processing module further receives a video stream from... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105639 | BUNDLING NIGHT VISION AND OTHER DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS (DAS) USING NEAR INFRA RED (NIR) ILLUMINATION AND A ROLLING SHUTTER A system mountable in a motor vehicle. The system includes a camera and a processor configured to receive image data from the camera. The camera includes a rolling shutter configured to capture the image data during a frame period and to scan and to read the image data ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105642 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted video display device that allows a vehicle occupant to intuitively ascertain the orientation of the video being displayed on a display in the vehicle among multiple videos of the vehicle perimeter captured by multiple cameras, was captured... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105636 | Digital video projection display system A digital display for viewing images generated by a remote video source. Light collected by a lens is focused and passed through one polarizer filter and is focused through a digital device comprising an array of pixels of which each may be fitted with a micro lens. The... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081549 | Structure for crosswalk providing both advertising effect and pedestrian safety A structure for a crosswalk providing both an advertising effect and pedestrian safety. A first support is erected vertically from a center of an entrance of a crosswalk. A second support is disposed parallel to and at a predetermined interval from the first support. Th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081550 | CAMERA SYSTEM A camera system comprising a circuit board having a first end with a first camera electrically connected thereto and a second end with a second camera electrically connected thereto; and a frame having a first frame member, a second frame member, and a mount for attachi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068840 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM A technology that does not require complicated operation to select a display mode is provided. In an image display system, a back mode stores a display mode that has been recently set as a current mode. When the display mode becomes the back mode next time, the display ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069183 | VEHICLE DETECTION APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a vehicle detection apparatus includes a line segment extraction unit, candidate creation unit, evaluation unit, and specific part detection unit, and the line segment extraction unit extracts a plurality of line-segment components constitut... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069181 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT CONTROLLING APPARATUS HAVING OBJECT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTING APPARATUS HAVING OBJECT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, AND SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS An object identification device includes an image capturing device to capture images polarized in different directions. A noise removal unit removes noise in the polarized images using a noise removing parameter. An index value computing unit computes an object identifi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069185 | BARRIER AND GUARDRAIL DETECTION USING A SINGLE CAMERA Driver assistance systems for detecting a structural barrier extending along a road. The driver assistance system may be mountable in a host vehicle. The camera may capture multiple image frames in the forward field of view of the camera. A processor may process motion ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069188 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A technology for displaying images on a displaying apparatus mounted on a vehicle is provided. In response to a predetermined instruction signal, synthetic images viewed from a virtual viewpoint around and above the periphery of the vehicle are generated based on a plur... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069182 | VEHICLE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD A vehicle image display apparatus and method acquires captured images of an area around a vehicle captured by cameras at a plurality of positions on an outer portion of the vehicle, generates a single image based on the captured images and displays a composite image inc... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069186 | Parking-Assist Apparatus and Method A parking-assist system for a car comprises at least one sensor suitable to be attached to a car and configured to create output signals, a wireless s transmitter connected to the sensor; and a device equipped with a wireless receiver. The device is configured to wirele... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069187 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM A technology for intuitively recognizing a positional relation between a vehicle and an object is provided. In an image display system, in a display image provided to a driver, the side region of the vehicle in a direction indicated by a direction instructing device is ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069184 | REAR VIEW DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE A motor vehicle rear view mirror device with at least one optical sensor is suggested, which is connected to at least one image evaluation circuit board and to at least one display. This optical sensor is connected to the image evaluation circuit board via a receiver ci... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069153 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING AREA AROUND VEHICLE Disclosed is a device for monitoring the area around a vehicle wherein, when a monitor output image is acquired by synthesizing bird's-eye-view images based on the captured images of a plurality of cameras, the skewness of a three-dimensional object that appears in the ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050534 | VEHICLE VIDEO SYSTEM AND VIDEO CAMERA THEREFOR A vehicle video system includes a video camera installed on an exterior surface of vehicle body to image a front or rear view field in front of or behind the vehicle and a monitor display located near a driver's seat in a passenger compartment to display an image of fro... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050074 | AUTOMATIC VEHICLE EQUIPMENT MONITORING, WARNING, AND CONTROL SYSTEM An automatic vehicle equipment control system and methods thereof are provided, the system includes at least one imager configured to acquire a continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, a processor, a color spectral filter array including a pluralit... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050489 | ROAD DEPARTURE WARNING SYSTEM The prevention of vehicle accidents is targeted. A road texture model is created based on a vehicle camera image. An initial vehicle location estimate is determined, and map imagery is obtained based on this location estimate. A refined vehicle location is determined us... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044352 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE Provided is a vehicle periphery monitoring device capable of making a driver reliably recognize the shape of an object to which attention should be paid. According to an image processing unit (1) (vehicle periphery monitoring device), for example, when it is high... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044351 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION FOR VEHICLE Information display device and method for a vehicle are provided. The information display device for a vehicle includes: a camera unit that generates and outputs image information on the rear side of the vehicle; a main processing unit that performs predetermined functi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038771 | VEHICULAR INTERIOR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a mirror housing, an electro-optic reflective element and an information display. The information display is disposed in the mirror housing rearward of the transflectiv... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038748 | Vision System and Method for a Motor Vehicle A vision system (10) for a motor vehicle includes at least one imaging device (12) adapted to detect images from a region surrounding the motor vehicle, and an electronic processing means (14) for processing image data provided by the imaging device... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033076 | VIBRATION APPLYING STRUCTURE DETECTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE A vibration applying structure detecting device for a wheeled vehicle traveling on a roadway having a vibration applying structure on a road surface in or adjacent to the roadway includes a lane departure judgment device that determines whether there is a lane departure... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033079 | CAMERA FOR A VEHICLE A camera for a vehicle, in particular for monitoring the exterior environment. The camera having: an imager having a plurality of pixels, having different imager regions for different object distances, and an objective situated before the imager. Between the objective a... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033077 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A device has a unit acquires photograph images taken by a first and a second camera; a unit sets correspondences between positions in a first photograph image, in a first display image, in a second photograph image, and in a second display image on the basis of a first ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033080 | MONITORING APPARATUS Disclosed is a monitoring technique for displaying a low-luminance image of e.g. a dark area in an easily visible manner. The inventive apparatus includes an image capturing unit 10 for capturing an image of an object to be monitored, an inversion condition determining ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033078 | HANDLING ASSISTANT APPARATUS FOR TWO-BODY CONNECTED VEHICLE A handling assistant apparatus for two-body connected vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus is applied to a two-body connected vehicle including a tractor and a trailer, the tractor and the trailer having different turn radius. A static signal acquisition means acquires s... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032780 | VEHICULAR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an interior electrochromic reflective element. The interior rearview mirror assembly includes a control that has circuitry operable to provide a drive signal to the reflective elemen... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033075 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICLE A vehicle has a display device which widens the field of view (visible area) reflected by a side mirror or a back mirror mounted on the vehicle. To enable a driver driving the vehicle to confirm safety even when it is difficult for the driver to visually recognize some ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033074 | Method and device for determining a valid lane marking The invention relates to a method and a device for determining a valid lane marking (38 to 42; 56, 58) with the aid of a camera system (16) of a vehicle (12), in particular a road vehicle. With the aid of a camera (17) of the camera sy... | 02/09/2012 |
