Smr Patents Sarl

Motherson Innovations Company Limited

Smr Automotive Systems India Limited

Andreas Herrmann

Arne Schmierer

Simon David Field

Ilka Rötzer

Andrew Lettis

Graham Rehill

Callum Scott-Collins

Raimund Negel

Simon Belcher

Daniel Fritz

Romeo Wieczorek

Dean Caruso

Sam Thoday

Scott Agung Edwards

Shane Randell Koehne

Firas Mualla

Istvan Szmolenszki

Jacob Heath Messenger

Frank Linsenmaier

Matthias Koller

Gary Dekievit

Oliver Eder

Andrew Brian Little

James Nicholson

Martin Schwalb

Thomas Jochmann

Bill Frank

Steve Horne

Peter Hein

Francis Charlet

Oliver G Schmidt

Eugen Meier

Matthew Chapman-Winter

Maximilian Kauffmann

Nitesh Pushpak Shah

Paul R Henion

Gary J Sinelli

Volker Erhart

Alf Liesener

Gareth Aspden

Stefanie Göttlicher

Dong Myeong Park

Stephen Beecher

David Kershaw

Alexandru Dobrete

Daniel Joseph Flynn

Tom Harris

Alexander Slama

Henrik Schäfer

Artem Rudi

Gary Smith

Ian Robert Toone

Sascha Björn Heib

Kane Connor

Jakub Spychala

Mathew Chapman-Winter

Thorsten Steder

Shahad Algurabi

Levente Kurti

Andrea König

Reinhold Langbein

Urszula Kosidlo

David Derry Chamberlain

Won Sik Hong

Adam Di Fiore

Phillip McKenzie

Marco Cid

Cheol Ho Yim

Chang Kyun Han

Nils Arne Müller

Anthony P D'Andrea

Warwick Jones

Norbert Kürschner

Colin James Hall

Kai Uwe Hagenburg

Drew Raymond Evans

Levente Acs

Philipp Hottmann

Darryl Brooks

Kamil Zuber

Mukesh Patel

Bastian Stoehr

Thomas Agung Nugraha

Torsten Weingärtner

David-Kenneth Jaeger

Vincent Wilson

Alexander Czechowicz

Tim Symonds

Geon Young Choi

Soenke Goldschmidt

Brad Gibson

Yann Buchet

Stephen Edney

Harry Welfare

Ho Jin Huh

Ganeshan Narayanan

Heiko Boehland

Christopher Moase

Gottfried Sailer

Eugene Schmirin

An external rearview device for a vehicle includes a rearview element comprising at least one of a reflective element, a camera, or a display element; a housing configured to be attached to the vehicle and configured to be moveable relative to the vehicle; and a bezel affixed to an opening defined by the housing and surrounding the rearview element. The bezel is coated and a coating of the bezel is at least one of a decorative coating, an advanced surface technology, or a spectrally controlling system, and the rearview element is coupled to at least one of the bezel or the housing.

Light emitting mirror bezel

The present disclosure refers to a base assembly of an exterior rear view device. The base assembly is configured to be mounted to a vehicle in a way that moveably supports a head assembly of the exterior rearview device. The base assembly comprises: a camera with a lens, a cleaning system with a nozzle for dispensing cleaning fluid onto the lens, a base frame, a base cover that comprises a plurality of cover pieces, and a camera cradle. The cover pieces provide a first opening for the lens and a second opening for the nozzle. The camera cradle is mounted to the base frame for holding both the camera and the nozzle.

Base assembly with camera, cleaning system, base frame and base cover, rear view device, vehicle and assembling and dis-assembling method

The present disclosure refers to a rearview device, in particular a rearview mirror device and/or a rearview display device, mountable on a vehicle through a mounting structure, the rearview device comprising: a rearview element including at least one of a reflective element and a display element; a circuit board for providing an electrical connection to at least one of the rearview element, a light module, a heating element, sensing means and a human machine interface; and a housing coupled with the mounting structure, wherein the housing provides a mounting coupling portion to which the mounting structure is connected and an internal space in which the circuit board is arranged, wherein at least one fastening member for coupling the housing and the mounting structure is engaged on the mounting coupling portion, wherein the circuit board is attached to the housing adjacent to the mounting coupling portion, and wherein the circuit board is arranged in the internal space of the housing so as to not interfere with the installation of the rearview device on the vehicle when the at least one of the fastening member is engaged on the mounting coupling portion.

Rearview device for vehicles with circuit board

A method for displaying and processing an image includes capturing the image, calculating one or more of a size, a position, and a field of view of a first region of interest (ROI) of the captured image, calculating one or more of a size, a position, and a field of view of a second ROI of the captured image, calculating a blur factor for blurring the first ROI, manipulating an image gradient of the first ROI pixel by pixel using the blur factor to reduce at least one of a brightness or a contrast of one or more pixels of the ROI, manipulating the second ROI by changing a color of one or more pixel values from the second ROI, and displaying the processed image on a display. An imaging system which includes an image signal processor (ISP) is also described.

Rearview device simulation

An external rearview device for a motor vehicle includes a housing, and one or more of at least one light emitting or a receiving device, including one or more of at least one light producing device or at least one camera device arranged within the housing, and at least one at least partially transparent element closing an opening provided by the housing, the at least partially transparent element being provided in form of a first module attached to the housing, and the one or more of the light producing device or the camera device being provided in form of a second module attached to the first module, the first module and the second module being mechanically releasably coupled.

Rearview device and vehicle with such rearview device

The present disclosure refers to an interior rearview device adapted for use with a motor vehicle, comprising: a rearview element comprising at least one of a reflective element and a display element; a bezel surrounding the rearview element and being surrounded by a housing; a mount assembly which is configured to attach the housing to the vehicle; and an human machine interface (HMI) for controlling at least one function of the interior rearview device, with the HMI comprising at least one ToF sensor, between the housing and the rearview element, and at least a part of the bezel, preferably at the bottom of the interior rearview device. The bezel () comprises a transparent and/or translucent substrate provided with a, preferably chromium-based, reflective coating (), with at least one opening or region of reduced thickness of the coating () being provided on the substrate and/or being hidden by the coating () until the at least one light source is lit, and providing at last one logo, sign, mark, icon and/or information on a function to be actuated via the HMI.

Interior rearview device with human machine interface and vehicle therewith

The present invention refers to a security setting method for a camera system of a vehicle comprising the steps of creating a camera system with at least a first camera module with a first identification number, a second camera module with a second identification number and an electronic control unit (ECU); creating at least one first camera module Hash value (H) for the first identification number, at least one second camera module Hash value (H) based on the second identification number and/or at least one camera pod assembly Hash value based on the first and second identification numbers; and storing the at least one of the Hash values. It also refers to a camera pod assembly comprising at least two camera modules to be attached to a vehicle via a mounting and being adapted for usage of such a security setting method; a camera system comprising at least one such camera pod assembly; and a vehicle comprising such a camera system.

Camera system security calibration method and camera pod assembly

A decorative radome including a radio-transmissive substrate having a first surface on a first side and a second surface on a second side; and a first surface radio-transmissive decorative coating; methods of manufacturing a PVD coated system include applying a hard coating to the substrate; applying a PVD coating by magnetron sputtering to the substrate; and laser etching one or more of a pattern or a graphic into the PVD coating; and A decorative PVD coated item, comprising: a substrate; a hard coating applied to the substrate; a PVD coating provided on the hard coating and the substrate, wherein the PVD coating is laser etched with one or more of a pattern or a graphic so that the PVD coating is at least partially removed and the pattern or the graphic is revealed as a result of the contrast between the substrate and the PVD coating.

Decorative PVD coated items and radomes and methods of making same

A light emitting system includes a light pipe, a light source disposed at least partially within an interior of the light emitting system, and configured to emit light when receiving electrical power from an electrical power source, wherein the light source is arranged adjacent to and directed towards the light pipe, a lens substantially enclosing the interior of the light emitting system, the light pipe and the light source, the lens having an inner surface and an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface, and a mask comprising a coating that is applied on the lens and laser etched to form a desired pattern, wherein light emitted from the light source passes through the light pipe and lens.

Light emitting system, a design element, a rear view device, a covering device, and a body component of a vehicle

The present disclosure relates to a rear view device for a vehicle with one or more gaskets preventing water or other contaminants from entering the device between components, while allowing the components to move in relation to one another. In embodiments, the rear view device comprises a base adapted to be mounted to a side of the vehicle, a head for supporting at least one means for providing a rearward field of view disposed at a second attachment end of the base, an actuator connected to the second end of the base, and a shroud attached to the actuator, wherein the actuator may rotate the head in relation to the base. In embodiment, a foot gasket is attached to a foot of the base and includes a first lip portion that extends towards the shroud in a vertical direction, and a second soft lip portion that contacts the shroud in a horizontal direction. In embodiments, a head gasket includes a soft lip portion comprising a first end making contact with a face of the shroud, and a hard portion comprising an attachment to a second end of the soft lip portion, wherein the head gasket extends at an angle from the shroud.

Rear view device with actuator and gasket sealing head mover

An assembly set for assembling an external rearview system for a motor vehicle is provided. The external rearview system when assembled may include a base assembly provided for arrangement on the motor vehicle, and a head assembly attached to the base assembly. The assembly set may include (i) a first head assembly comprising, a first rearview device comprising at least one reflective element in form of a mirror glass, (ii) a second head assembly comprising, a second rearview device comprising at least one reflective element in form of an at least partly translucent mirror glass, and at least one first camera unit being configured to obtain a rearview image through the reflective element, and (iii) a third head assembly with at least one component of a camera monitor system. The head assembly may be configured to be detachable and is selected to be the first, second or third head assembly, with the first, second and third head assembly being exchangeable with each other.

External rearview device, external rearview device kit and vehicle

An internal multi-function rearview device for use with a vehicle includes a rearview element comprising at least one of a reflective element, a camera, or a display element; a housing configured to be attached to the vehicle and configured to be moveable relative to the vehicle; a bezel configured to be affixed to an opening defined by the housing and configured to surround the rearview element; and a foot configured to be fixed to the vehicle and relative to which the housing and bezel is moveable. The bezel is coated and a coating of the bezel is at least one of a decorative coating, an advanced surface technology, or a spectrally controlling system, and the rearview element is coupled to at least one of the bezel or the housing.

A method includes detecting a direction of view of at least one passenger as an occupant of the motor vehicle; and providing a display with information about at least one object in a landscape of the motor vehicle viewed by the at least one passenger, the at least one object not being relevant to road traffic, such that said information is provided in an area in the direction of view of the at least one passenger, wherein, when multiple passengers of the motor vehicle are detected, a direction of view of each passenger is detected, such that a display with information about the at least one object in the landscape of the motor vehicle viewed by at least two passengers is provided in an area in which the direction of view of the at least two passengers intersect.

Method for providing a display in a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle

An assembly set for assembling an external rearview system for a motor vehicle is provided. The external rearview system when assembled may include a base assembly provided for arrangement on the motor vehicle, and a head assembly attached to the base assembly. The assembly set may include (i) a first head assembly comprising a first rearview device comprising at least one reflective element in form of a mirror glass, and (ii) a second head assembly with at least one component of a camera monitor system. The head assembly may be configured to be detachable and is selected to be the first or second head assembly, with the first and second head assembly being exchangeable with each other.

A multi-function rearview device for use with a vehicle includes a housing configured to be attached to the vehicle and to be moveable relative to the vehicle, a rearview element including at least one of a reflective element, a camera and a display element, a bezel formed at an outer portion of the multi-function rearview device surrounding the rearview element, with the rearview element being attached to at least one of the bezel and the housing, one or more light assemblies providing at least one or more light function indications, including a Human Machine Interface (HMI), and at least one sensor, the sensor controlling the one or more light assemblies or the display element.

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Winnenden-Baach, Germany

Andreas Herrmann