Connaught Electronics Limited

Brian Michael Thomas Deegan

Patrick Eoghan Denny

Huanqing Guo

Mark Patrick Griffin

Vladimir Zlokolica

John Toner

Laura Russell

Vincent Duffy

Fergal Lydon

A method for reducing a color shift of image pixels of an image for a motor vehicle captured by a camera, a computer program product and a control device for the vehicle are disclosed. For the respective image pixel of the image, the method involves determining a color information, which describes a color of the image pixel, checking whether the determined color information is larger than a minimum color information and smaller than a maximum color information, wherein the minimum and maximum color information delimit a color information range, in which reference image pixels describing a reference object sway. When the checking is successful, calculating a corrected color information in consideration of the determined color information and a correction factor and providing the calculated corrected color information instead of the determined color information, wherein the corrected color information in comparison to the determined color information has a reduced color shift.

Method for reducing a color shift of image pixels of an image for a motor vehicle captured by a camera

The invention relates to a method for removing deposits on a lens () of a camera () of a motor vehicle (), in which a contaminant present on the lens () is removed as the deposit, wherein a cleaning liquid () is applied to the lens by means of a washing device () for removing the contaminant, wherein a temperature of the lens () is determined and the application of the cleaning liquid () to the lens () is performed depending on the determined temperature.

Method for removing deposits on a lens of a camera of a motor vehicle considering a temperature of the lens, cleaning device, camera assembly as well as motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for generating at least one merged perspective viewing image (), which shows a motor vehicle () and its environmental region () from a dynamically variable perspective (P, P, P) of a dynamic virtual camera () and which is determined based on raw images () of at least two cameras () and based on a perspective model () of the motor vehicle (), comprising the steps of: a) determining whether the merged perspective viewing image () comprises at least one disturbing signal afflicted image area, and if so, identifying the at least one disturbing signal afflicted image area; b) (S) determining a severity of disturbing signals () within the at least one disturbing signal afflicted image area; c) (S) determining a significance of the disturbing signals () in dependence on the perspective (P, P, P) of the virtual camera (); d) (S) determining a degree of coverage of the disturbing signal afflicted image area by the model () of the motor vehicle () in dependence on the perspective (P, P, P) of the virtual camera (); e) () reducing the disturbing signals () only, if the severity exceeds a predetermined severity-threshold and the significance exceeds a predetermined significance-threshold and the degree of coverage remains below a predetermined degree of coverage-threshold. The invention moreover relates to a camera system () as well as a motor vehicle ().

Method for generating at least one merged perspective viewing image of a motor vehicle and an environmental area of the motor vehicle, a camera system and a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for providing image data () from a camera system () for a motor vehicle (), wherein the camera system () includes at least one camera, in particular a plenoptic camera (), including a lens () and a sensor array (), in which electromagnetic radiation () is captured by means of the sensor array () and image data () of an environmental region () of the motor vehicle () is provided based on the captured electromagnetic radiation () and the image data () is evaluated by means of an evaluation device (), wherein a direction of incidence of the electromagnetic radiation () on the sensor array () is determined by the evaluation device () based on the image data () provided by the sensor array () and the image data () is adapted by means of the evaluation device () depending on the determined direction of incidence.

Method for providing image data from a camera system, camera system and motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for recognizing a band-limiting malfunction of a camera () of a motor vehicle (), in which during the operation of the motor vehicle () an image () of a measurement object (), which is external to the motor vehicle, is captured by means of the camera () arranged on the motor vehicle (), and in the image () a point spread function () is determined on the basis of a brightness distribution () along a profile through a pixel with a brightness, which exceeds a brightness threshold value, of the measurement object () shown in the image (), and on the basis of the determined point spread function () a property value of a property of the camera () is determined, and the band-limiting malfunction of the camera () is recognized, in case the property value of the camera () is smaller than a property threshold value.

Method for recognizing a band-limiting malfunction of a camera, camera system, and motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for presenting safety information on a display device () of a motor vehicle (), wherein the motor vehicle () includes an environment imaging device (), by which an object () in an environmental region () of the motor vehicle () is pictorially captured, wherein a distortion demonstration () is presented on the display device () as safety information, which describes a deviation of a distorted mapping () of the object () causally generated by the environment imaging device () to an undistorted mapping () of the object () compared thereto, wherein at least one distorted mapping () is displayed as an image () and at least one undistorted mapping () is displayed as a further image () on the display device ().

Method for presenting safety information, driver assistance system and motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for operating a camera () of a motor vehicle (), wherein a cover () is moved between an operating position, in which the camera () provides images of an environmental region () of the motor vehicle (), and a covering position, in which the cover () covers the camera () against the environmental region (). The current brightness level of a scene of the camera () is acquired by means of the camera (); in the operating position of the cover (), at least one operating parameter of the camera () is adjusted depending on the current brightness level of the scene; a movement operation of the cover () from the operating position into the covering position is acquired by the camera (); and after acquiring the movement operation, the at least one operating parameter is adjusted to a value independent of the current brightness level of the scene acquired by the camera (), in particular whilst maintaining an activated operating state of the camera ().

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Brian Michael Thomas Deegan