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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139109 | Vision system for an autonomous vehicle A system includes a vehicle management system, and at least a first, a second, and a third video camera in communication with the vehicle management system. The vehicle management system is configured to receive input from a combination of at least two cameras selec... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125519 | Night vision device for motor vehicles A night vision device for motor vehicles, having a display unit for depicting the vehicle surroundings imaged with at least one night vision sensor, has a control unit for ascertaining, from the current driving situation, a value for the risk potential as a result o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120653 | Video monitoring system for school buses A video camera system for a school bus to replace one or more of the mirror systems typically utilized on school buses today. One or two cameras can be positioned on the sides of the school bus in place of the rearview mirrors presently utilized. A pair of cameras w... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111287 | 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 circu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102421 | Image processing device for vehicle, image processing method of detecting three-dimensional object, and image processing program An image processing device determines, cuts and extracts a processing area from an image data monitored by a camera mounted onto a driver's vehicle based on a distance between a front target object and a driver's vehicle, a horizontal position of the driver's vehicl... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094190 | Driving support method and apparatus A driving support unit captures an image of a driver's blind spot due to presence of a pillar of a vehicle includes at least first and second cameras which are mounted on the vehicle, a display device for displaying the image on the interior surface of the pillar an... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089512 | Driving support device, driving support method and computer program A driving support device, a driving support method, and a computer program provide an image of the peripheral environment of a vehicle which is captured by a camera. The traveling state of the vehicle is obtained and, based on same, a blind spot region for a driver ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081211 | Reverse or peripheral sensing system for a vehicle A reverse sensing system displaying an overhead vehicle image includes a plurality of fisheye lenses, a trip computer, and a screen. The fisheye lenses are disposed on all sides of the vehicle to shoot the surrounding scene images of the vehicle. The trip computer r... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8049778 | Parking assistance device An imaging device mounted on a vehicle (30) acquires image data resulting from capturing an image of a scene around the vehicle (30). A parking section (E) corresponding to the desired parking position is set. The image data is subjected to an image-co... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031224 | 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 t... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022985 | Vehicle-mounted imaging device Color signals that have passed through a multilayer film filter and been photoelectrically converted are inputted into an image processing LSI. A color signal processing section of the image processing LSI corrects the color signals on a color matrix. The color matr... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018488 | Vehicle-periphery image generating apparatus and method of switching images A vehicle-periphery image generating apparatus and an image switching method which provides a rear view image displayed additionally from a vehicle-periphery image is presented at an adequate timing with eye-friendliness. There are provided a parallel detector for d... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7453491 | Shooting equipment communicating system The shooting equipment communicating system includes portable shooting equipment and mobile communications equipment which are moved together and communicate with each other. The mobile communications equipment includes a database section for storing map data, locat... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7423665 | Vehicle pathway vision system having in-path delineation reticle A vehicle vision system displays a vehicle pathway image that includes a reticle for visually identifying the in-path portion of the image. A reticle array is disposed between a video camera chip and a lens, and includes a conical or frustro-conical region of substa... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423640 | Method and system for panoramic display of medical images A method for displaying a medical image comprises selecting a point in a medical image, creating a panoramic digital image by propagating a plurality of rays from said selected point, wherein said panoramic digital image comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel b... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7411486 | Lane-departure warning system with differentiation between an edge-of-lane marking and a structural boundary of the edge of the lane A driver assistance device for warning a driver of a motor vehicle of a risk of departure from the lane or from the lane is described, having at least one image-transmitting sensor, an evaluation device, connected to the image-transmitting sensor, for detecting edge... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405746 | Image navigation device An estimate image is generated from a position and an angle of a camera and the estimate image is stored. A collating unit collates an estimate image with a scenery image, and corrects estimate values of a position and angles of the camera according to a result of t... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394355 | Vehicle collision detector A collision prevention detector (22), and a method therefor, to be mounted on a vehicle (10), transmits a sequence of transmissions of IR signals. The signals are transmitted in sequences alternating between at least one at the right and to the left po... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386163 | Obstacle recognition apparatus and method, obstacle recognition program, and mobile robot apparatus An obstacle recognition apparatus is provided which can recognize an obstacle by accurately extracting a floor surface. It includes a distance image generator (222) to produce a distance image using a disparity image and homogeneous transform matrix, a plane ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375652 | Systems and devices for assessing fines for traffic disturbances Traffic disturbances are detected and data is collected by various sensors where the data reflects the entity that is responsible for the disturbance and the number of vehicles that are impacted by the disturbance. The data is analyzed to determine whether a traffic... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375728 | Virtual mirror A virtual mirror is rendered by a computer graphics display or screen. The display substantially replicates the optical properties of a physical mirror. The display is provided on a host vehicle. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369942 | Vehicle traveling state determining apparatus The present invention provides a vehicle traveling state determining apparatus including a camera which picks up an image of a road surface in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling, and zigzag state detecting section for determining a zigzag amount on the basi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369172 | Vehicular camera A vehicular camera for detecting desired imaging objects by shooting the surroundings of a vehicle includes a lens for forming an image of light on an image pickup device, an optical filter capable of selectively transmitting a component of light in a particular wav... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365300 | Rear vision system A rear vision system having a divided lens configuration and sensor array. The sensor array has a first, second section and third sections. The lens configuration includes a first portion directing a first field of view onto the first section of the sensor array, an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365769 | Activating a vehicle's own brake lights and/or brakes when brake lights are sensed in front of the vehicle, including responsively to the proximity of, and/or rate of closure with, a forward vehicle Any presence of brake light emissions of another vehicle to the forward of a subject vehicle is sensed in a color camera and microprocessor system that detects (i) red light(s) illuminations in excess of other colors, that are any of (ii) appropriately sized, (iii) ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362883 | Lane marker recognition method A lane marker recognition method comprises the steps of inputting an image including a lane marker, extracting luminance change points in the image, and estimating the position of the lane marker using the extracted edge points. The edge extracting step includes cal... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363130 | Parking assist systems, methods, and programs Parking assist systems, methods, and programs may take a peripheral image of a vehicle; and may display the peripheral image on a display. The systems, methods, and programs may recognize a parking area and may display a first predicted locus line on the display, th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358889 | Object detection system and method of detecting object An object detection system is provided with radar detection means (2), image detection means (3), and collating means (4). The collating means (4) detects a combination of an object detected by the radar detection means (2) and an ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355628 | Method and apparatus of maintaining a video signal through brief interruptions of a related control signal A night vision system that allows a video camera to continue to be operational after a power control signal, such as a headlamp switch, to the camera has been temporarily interrupted. The system is designed to avoid a camera calibration or equalization process every... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336805 | Docking assistant Many day-to-day driving situations require that an operator of a motor vehicle guide the motor vehicle along a specific course and bring the vehicle to a stop at a specific location, for example in a parking bay or at a loading platform. To assist a vehicle operator... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327225 | Activation control of a vehicular rear view video display The activation of a rear view video display in a vehicle is interrupted under specified operating conditions to discourage inappropriate driver reliance on the video display. The video display is automatically activated when the reverse transmission range of the veh... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323987 | Compact single lens laser system for object/vehicle presence and speed determination A compact system for determining the presence and speed of an object/vehicle, and its application for Red Light Camera photo-enforcement is disclosed. The disclosed system uses accurate timing, laser radiation in the form of optical pulses, and the scattering effect... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7295227 | Apparatus for assisting steering of vehicle when backing A steering assist apparatus that assists a driver when backing a vehicle in an S-shaped path or parallel parking. The apparatus displays guidance marking on a monitor screen and the driver refers to the guidance marking, which permits the driver to easily back the v... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277559 | Mobile apparatus A mobile apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of imaging devices, a measurement device for measuring a current position and direction of the imaging devices, a map data storing section which stores map data including at least registered information on p... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266221 | Ranging device utilizing image processing An image size changing section obtains a size-changed image by changing the size of one of two original images captured by a pair of cameras. If an edge of an object has many oblique components, the edge is difficult to detect as a vertical edge but, when the image ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7248283 | Vehicle periphery monitor A front camera for filming an area stretching forwards is disposed in a front portion of a vehicle. A side camera for filming an area stretching laterally and diagonally forwards is disposed in a lateral-left portion of the vehicle. An indicator display that can be ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231288 | System to determine distance to a lead vehicle A system implemented in a vehicle to detect a lead vehicle includes a camera which captures an image of the rear of the lead vehicle and an image processing system that receives image data from the camera. The image processing system is implemented with an algorithm... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218207 | Method for detecting position of lane marker, apparatus for detection position of lane marker and alarm apparatus for lane deviation A method for a detecting position of a lane marker relating to the present invention obtains an integral brightness by taking an image of a road surface (4) by a camera (2) loaded on a vehicle (3), converting the image taken by the camera (2 | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209822 | Method for selecting a target vehicle A method selects a target vehicle located in front of a vehicle in the driving direction of the second-mentioned vehicle. The selection of the target vehicle is used in particular to automatically control the distance between the second-mentioned vehicle and the tar... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206589 | Method and device for handling a multimedia call The present invention proposes a method for performing a communication between two terminal equipments (TE1, TE2) via at least one communication network (NW1, NW2), said method comprising the steps of establishing (S2) a first conn... | 04/17/2007 |
