Magna Electronics Inc.

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Alan M Cordeiro

Suresh Boddi

Nikhil Gupta

Jyothi P Gali

Richard C Bozich

Tejas Murlidhar Varunjikar

Mayank Hitesh Desai

Ove J Salomonsson

Garret F Achenbach

Harold E Joseph

Tom H Toma

John Fiaschetti

G Edzko Smid

Sujith Gurram

Ronald R Renaud

Chang Wang

A vehicular sensing system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle equipped with the vehicular sensing system and a plurality of zonal aggregators each receiving respective sensor data captured by at least two respective sensors of the plurality of sensors and each aggregating its received sensor data into respective aggregated sensor data. The system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) that receives the respective aggregated sensor data from each respective zonal aggregator. The system includes a plurality of daughter cards, each removably connected to a respective zonal aggregator. Each respective daughter card includes a respective controller that controls a respective component of the equipped vehicle and the respective component controlled by the respective controller is based on a location of the respective zonal aggregator and respective daughter card within the equipped vehicle.

Vehicular driving assistance system with adaptable/replaceable controller cards

A vehicular sensing system includes a camera and a radar sensor disposed at a vehicle. The system, responsive to processing of radar data captured by the radar sensor, determines an edge of a road the vehicle is traveling along. Responsive to processing of image data captured by the camera, location of a lane marking of the road is determined. As the vehicle travels along the road, the system, responsive to failing to determine the location of the lane marking of the road via processing of the image data captured by the camera, predicts the location of the lane marking of the road based on the radar data. The vehicle is controlled based in part on the predicted location of the lane marking of the road.

Vehicular radar system for predicting lanes using smart camera input

A vehicular driver assistance system includes a front camera module (FCM) disposed at a vehicle. The system, responsive to processing captured image data, generates FCM lane information including information regarding a traffic lane the vehicle is currently traveling along. An e-Horizon module (EHM) generates EHM lane information including information regarding the traffic lane the vehicle is currently traveling along. The vehicular driver assistance system determines an FCM correlation using the FCM lane information and sensor data captured by at least one exterior sensor. The vehicular driver assistance system determines an EHM correlation using the EHM lane information and the sensor data captured by the at least one exterior sensor. Responsive to determining the FCM correlation and the EHM correlation, the system controls lateral movement of the vehicle based on one selected from the group consisting of (i) the FCM lane information and (ii) the EHM lane information.

Vehicular driving assistance system with enhanced traffic lane determination

A vehicular parking assist system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The vehicular parking assist system, via processing of captured sensor data, and while the vehicle is conducting a parking maneuver, detects an object and tracks location of the detected object relative to the vehicle until the detected object leaves a field of sensing of the at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors. The system, after the detected object leaves the field of sensing of the at least one sensor, predicts location of the detected object relative to the vehicle. The system, upon completion of the parking maneuver, determines that the detected object is hazardous based on the predicted location of the detected object relative to the vehicle, and responsive to determining that the detected object is hazardous, restricts opening of a door of the vehicle.

Vehicular parking assist system

A driving assistance system includes a front camera module (FCM). The system, responsive to processing captured image data from the FCM, generates FCM control signals. The system includes a plurality of vehicle sensors capturing sensor data and an advanced driving-assistance system (ADAS) controller. The ADAS controller, responsive to processing the sensor data, generates ADAS control signals. The ADAS controller generates an ADAS status signal indicating a reliability of the generated ADAS control signals. With the ADAS status signal indicating the reliability of the generated ADAS control signals is at or above a threshold ADAS reliability level, the system controls the vehicle using the ADAS control signal and, responsive to determining that the ADAS status signal indicates that the reliability of the generated ADAS control signals is below the threshold, switches from controlling the vehicle based on the ADAS control signals to controlling the vehicle based on the FCM control signals.

Vehicular driving assist system using forward viewing camera

A vehicular alert system includes at least one sensor disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The at least one sensor captures sensor data. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit includes a processor for processing sensor data captured by the at least one sensor to detect presence of objects viewed by the at least one sensor. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining a likelihood that the vehicle is parking, tracks a position of a detected object until the object leaves a field of sensing of the sensor. The vehicular alert system predicts a position of the object relative to the vehicle and determines the object is a hazard based on the predicted position. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining that the detected object is a hazard, alerts an occupant of the vehicle of the detected object.

Vehicular door opening warning system

A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at an in-cabin surface of a vehicle windshield, which includes a blackout region and a light-transmitting window through the blackout region. The camera views through the windshield at the light-transmitting window. The field of view of the camera encompasses at least part of the blackout region around the light-transmitting window, such that some of the photosensing elements do not receive light that passes through the light-transmitting window. A control processes image data captured by the camera to provide a dewarped image and does not use some of the photosensing elements of the camera when providing the dewarped image. The light-transmitting window of the blackout region is sized and shaped such that the photosensing elements that are not used by the control in dewarping the image are the same photosensing elements that do not receive light that passes through the light-transmitting window.

Vehicular vision system with reduced windshield blackout opening

A vision system for a vehicle towing a trailer includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of the trailer and viewing rearward of the trailer. A trailer antenna is disposed at the trailer and in data communication with the camera, and a vehicle antenna is disposed at the vehicle and in data communication with a control unit disposed at the vehicle. The trailer antenna is operable to transmit signals representative of image data captured by the camera toward a road surface along which the vehicle and trailer are traveling so that the transmitted signals reflect off of the road surface and toward the vehicle antenna disposed at the vehicle. The vehicle antenna receives the reflected RF signals and communicates data to the control unit that are representative of the received reflected signals.

Vehicle system for communication with trailer sensor

An autonomous vehicle driving system includes a control that autonomously controls the vehicle. The control, upon receipt of a destination geographical location, controls the vehicle to travel to the destination geographical location, and wirelessly receives data pertaining to driving conditions relevant to the route being traveled by the vehicle. Responsive to the received driving conditions data, the control determines a geographic location ahead of the vehicle along the route where driving of the vehicle by an occupant of the vehicle is desired. When the vehicle is traveling along the route and toward the determined geographic location and is within a threshold time and/or distance to the determined geographic location, the control informs the occupant of distance to and/or time of travel to the determined geographic location so the occupant is prepared to take over control of the vehicle and drive the vehicle upon the vehicle reaching the determined geographic location.

Autonomous driving system

A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle windshield and viewing through the windshield and exterior of the vehicle. A light-absorbing hiding layer is established at the windshield at an area at which the camera is disposed and includes an portion established therethrough, with the portion aligned with the camera such that the camera views through the windshield via the portion. The portion comprises a wider central region and narrower upper and lower regions. The wider central region of the portion provides a wide angle field of view of the camera at a region ahead of the vehicle and the narrower lower region of the portion reduces the field of view at regions near to and sidewards from the front of the vehicle. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera for a machine vision function or driver assistance system.

Vehicle vision system with camera viewing through windshield

A method is disclosed for improving the performance attainable in a motor-driven system of the type characterized by a single motor driving an output shaft operatively coupled to a motor-driven device, the single motor characterized by a first power and a first peak rate of acceleration, the method comprising: Providing at least two motors in place of the single motor, each of the at least two motors being characterized by a second peak rate of acceleration significantly greater than the first peak rate of acceleration, and the at least two motors further characterized by a combined power that is at least equivalent to the first power of the single motor; and operatively coupling the at least two motors in parallel to a common output shaft driving the motor-driven device such that the second peak rate of acceleration is efficiently translated to the common output shaft.

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Alan M Cordeiro