Continental Automotive Gmbh

Andreas Weinlich

Thomas Smits

A method for operating a camera-monitor system for a motor vehicle, in which the camera-monitor system has a camera that is designed to provide an image of an environment of the motor vehicle and has a monitor for representing images from the camera comprises providing an image from the camera, ascertaining an attention-relevant object in the environment, temporarily changing at least one representation property of the image in dependence on the ascertained object to form a changed image, and representing the changed image on the monitor.

Method and apparatus for operating a camera-monitor system for a motor vehicle

Various embodiments include a correction method comprising: A) reading in data of an image of a calibration pattern recorded with an optical unit, the pattern including some structures; B) simulating a line through the image, the line extending through a reference point subdividing the line into half-lines, each intersecting the imaged structures; C) determining a first and a second sequence of measured values representing distances resulting from the intersection points on the half-lines line with respect to the reference point; D) determining a third and a fourth sequence of target values representing target distances of the intersection points; E) determining a mapping specification that at least approximately maps the target values of the third and fourth sequences to the measured values of the first and second sequences, or vice versa; and F) correcting image data of an image recorded using an optical unit using the mapping specification of step E).

Correction method, and device for correcting image data

Various embodiments include a method for operating a camera-monitor system for a motor vehicle, wherein the camera-monitor system has a side camera assigned to a longitudinal side of the motor vehicle to provide an image of surroundings of the motor vehicle. The method may include: specifying a region of interest in the surroundings; and transforming the image of the camera into a transformed image wherein the region of interest in the transformed image is arranged in a specified image region with a specified magnification independent of any change in relative position between the region of interest and the motor vehicle.

Method and device for operating a video monitoring system for a motor vehicle

A method for operating a camera-monitor system for a motor vehicle, in which the camera-monitor system has two cameras which are assigned to a common side of the motor vehicle and are both designed to provide an image of the surroundings of the motor vehicle, wherein the imaged surroundings of the images partially overlap. The system ascertains transformation parameters for transforming a second image of the second camera such that an image element in a peripheral region of a transformed second image connects to a corresponding image element in a peripheral region of a first image of the first camera. Further, ascertaining transformation parameters for transforming the second image in dependence on the ascertained transformation parameters and in dependence on a specification provided for the transformed second image. The system transforms the second image with the further transformation parameters into the transformed second image.

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Andreas Weinlich