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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7436430 | 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 inpu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421095 | Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle A traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle including a traffic lane marking line recognizing device configured to recognize at least a traffic lane marking line in broken (e.g., white) line on a road surface in a camera photographed image, and an ima... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421094 | Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle In the traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle having an image compositing device for compositing images photographed at different time points by a camera to elongate a traffic lane marking line in the photographed image, a fore-aft direction angle ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415134 | Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle A traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle includes an image compositing device which composites images photographed at different time points by a camera to elongate a traffic lane marking line such as a white line in the photographed image based on ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415133 | Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle A traffic lane marking line recognition system for a vehicle includes an image compositing device which composites images photographed at different time points by a camera to elongate a traffic lane marking line such as a white line in the photographed image, the br... | 08/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7355524 | Automotive lane change aid A vehicle lane change aid system includes a detector that is operative to detect the presence of an other vehicle adjacent the vehicle, an indicator for providing an indication that a lane change maneuver of the vehicle may affect the other vehicle and a control rec... | 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 |
| 7317474 | 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 inpu... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307545 | Vehicle lane detector In a vehicle lane detector that detects a lane sign on a road surface, a condition for determining that the lane sign is detected is changed based on one of a frequency and a ratio of detection error of the lane sign. ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305149 | Image pickup information recognition system An image collating center has a communication unit, a processing unit, and a memory unit. The processing unit accesses a geographic information database through a communication network, extracts appropriate geographic information from the geographic information data... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7272467 | Systems and methods for filtering potentially unreliable visual data for visual simultaneous localization and mapping Apparatus and methods that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Advantageously, such visual techniques can be used to autonomously generate and updat... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265510 | Method and arrangement for signalizing a deactivation of a driver assistance system The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for signalizing the controlled deactivation of an assistance system during operation of motor vehicles (10) which are steerable by a steering manipulation device (36). The method is characterized... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7230640 | Three-dimensional perception of environment A vehicle-useful, high-resolution 3D-detection of the environment of a street vehicle with environment scanning sensors is not possible today. Depending on application the first commercially available vehicle integrated systems may be a comprise between resolution o... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227515 | System and method for forming images for display in a vehicle A system is disclosed that includes a lens system that directs energy from a scene toward a detector and display unit coupled to the detector. The display unit forms an image using information received from the detector. The detector includes an array of detector el... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218757 | Method and device for detecting obstruction in image sensor systems A method and a device for the detection of obstruction in image sensor systems made up of at least two image sensors, which record essentially the same scene. If at least one image feature of the respective images differs unacceptably between the respective images, ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7205904 | Automotive lane change aid A vehicle lane change aid system includes a detector that is operative to detect the presence of an other vehicle adjacent the vehicle, an indicator for providing an indication that a lane change maneuver of the vehicle may affect the other vehicle and a control rec... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197388 | Roll stability control system for an automotive vehicle using an external environmental sensing system A roll stability control system (18) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes an external environment sensing system, such as a camera-based vision system, or a radar, lidar or sonar-based sensing system (43) that generates image, radar, lidar, a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190392 | Telepresence system and active/passive mode display for use therein A telepresence server is for connection to a telecommunications network for providing access to a reality engine for a plurality of passive users. The reality engine can be controlled by an active user or a professional director through the network or by a local pro... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7171769 | Hitch system using a video camera to facilitate hitch alignment A video monitoring system is disclosed which may be used by the operator of a vehicle to guide the approach of the vehicle to an implement or a trailer or the like to bring connecting members of a hitch mechanism respectively located on the vehicle and on the implem... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162056 | Systems and methods for the automated sensing of motion in a mobile robot using visual data The invention is related to methods and apparatus that detect motion by monitoring images from a video camera mounted on a mobile robot, such as an autonomously navigated mobile robot. Examples of such robots include automated vacuum floor sweepers. Advantageously, ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151996 | System and method for generating a model of the path of a roadway from an image recorded by a camera A road skeleton estimation system generates an estimate as to a skeleton of at least a portion of a roadway ahead of a vehicle. The road skeleton estimation system includes an image receiver and a processor. The image receiver is configured to receive image informat... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145478 | Systems and methods for controlling a density of visual landmarks in a visual simultaneous localization and mapping system The invention is related to methods and apparatus that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Advantageously, such visual techniques can be used to aut... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135992 | Systems and methods for using multiple hypotheses in a visual simultaneous localization and mapping system The invention is related to methods and apparatus that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Advantageously, such visual techniques can be used to aut... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132933 | Obstacle detection device and method therefor Provided is a technology for helping safe driving and realizing automatic driving of vehicles, or for counting the number of passing vehicles on the road or monitoring those passing vehicles for their driving. Using a plurality of cameras mounted in a vehicle or pro... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7113202 | Autotiller control system for aircraft utilizing camera sensing An automatic control system for directional control of an aircraft moving on the ground utilizing computer vision methods and camera sensing methods (visible, infrared or microwave) to optically recognize and track taxiway navigation features thereby providing pilot... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7069129 | Driving support system and method A driving support system according to the present invention is provided with an actuator for steering steered wheels and performs a driving support control of a vehicle to apply an additional torque to a steering mechanism incorporating the steered wheels, by means ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062382 | Video enhanced stability control in road vehicles A stability control system for road vehicles comprising a limit handling assistance controller which uses video lane detection measurements in conjunction with vehicle dynamics information, including inertial brakes and steering measurements to control vehicle EPS a... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050891 | Method and system for guiding and positioning a self-propelled vehicle with sequential barcodes A method andsystem for guiding and positioning a self-propelled vehicle with sequential barcodes has a self-propelled vehicle capable of moving on the strip holder according to the recorded barcode serial numbers on the strip holder. Furthermore, due to the barcode ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050909 | Automatic taxi manager A method for moving a vehicle to a predetermined location comprises the steps of producing a real time image of a potential taxi route, comparing the real time image with a stored image to determine if the potential taxi route is clear between the location of the ve... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038577 | 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 receives the captured image, which comprises an image data set representative of ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033106 | Method and apparatus for sealing cracks in roads A roadway crack sealing apparatus (300, 314) which includes a crack sealing assembly having an emulsion container supported on a frame, wheels supporting the frame, a handle extending from the frame, a lever operable to control selectively open and close an e... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024286 | Parking assisting device Disclosed is a parking assisting device, including: a camera for capturing an image behind a vehicle; a display provided to a dashboard of the vehicle; passage width measurement device that measures a width of a passage; and a controller for displaying the image cap... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015831 | Systems and methods for incrementally updating a pose of a mobile device calculated by visual simultaneous localization and mapping techniques The invention is related to methods and apparatus that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Advantageously, such visual techniques can be used to aut... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6961445 | Image processing warning system A method and apparatus for capturing and processing images from a portion of a system in order to detect a warning condition for providing warnings to users or operators of the system. One or more image capture devices capable of capturing an image, for example, a c... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958746 | Systems and methods for improved telepresence The present invention provides a modular, flexible system for deploying multiple video perception technologies. The telepresence system of the present invention is capable of allowing an operator to control multiple mono and stereo video inputs in a hands-free manne... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952488 | System and method for object localization A computer-assisted method for localizing a rack, including sensing an image of the rack, detecting line segments in the sensed image, recognizing a candidate arrangement of line segments in the sensed image indicative of a predetermined feature of the rack, generat... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6911997 | Monitoring system, camera adjusting method and vehicle monitoring system To monitor both the surrounding of a vehicle and a place distant therefrom, there is mounted on the vehicle a twin-camera (23) composed of cameras (23L, 23R) forming a pair. To properly set the postures of the cameras (23L, 23R), t... | 06/28/2005 |
