Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Adc Automotive Distance Control Systems Gmbh

Dieter Kroekel

Karsten Breuer

Thomas Fechner

Stefan Heinrich

Stefan Hegemann

Martin Pfitzer

Konrad Rothenhaeusler

Boris Werthessen

Steffen Goermer

Bernd Hartmann

Matthias Komar

Carlos Almeida

Stefan Fritz

Matthias Strauss

Robert Thiel

Franz Pfeiffer

Urban Meis

Aless Lasaruk

Elias Strigel

Gerhard Mueller

Rolf Adomat

Joachim Denzler

Maximilian Austerer

Simon Hachfeld

Martin Vallendor

Stefan Schubert

Patrick Albrecht

Bjoern Froehlich

Michael Kemmler

Eric Bach

Christopher Kosubek

Martin Punke

Hendrik Powileit

Tobias Schwarz

Radhakrishna Chivukula

Bruno Nunes-Silva

Jos Becher

Christopher Kuenzel

Andreas Schleinkofer

Thilo Berg

Matthias Dropmann

Florian Dreier

Reik Mueller

Oscar Torres Alsina

The invention relates to a method for detecting beacons () in the surroundings of an ego vehicle (), comprising the steps of:

Method for detecting beacons

A camera device and a method are for optimally capturing a region surrounding a vehicle. The camera device includes an optronic unit and an image capturing control unit which are configured to acquire an image sequence of the surrounding region. The optronic unit includes a wide-angle lens and a high-resolution image acquisition sensor. The optronic unit and the image capturing control unit are configured to use at least two different exposure modes of the image acquisition sensor in combination with at least two different binning modes during the acquisition of the image sequence.

Camera device and method for capturing a region surrounding a vehicle in a surroundings-adapted manner

A stereo camera system for a driver assistance system includes a first camera having a first aperture angle and a second camera having a second aperture angle, wherein the first camera produces a wide-angle camera image, the second camera produces a telephoto camera image, and the two camera images have an area of overlap. The first camera is a rolling shutter camera and the second camera is a global shutter camera. The two cameras' shutters are synchronized with one another in particular manners.

Camera system having different shutter modes

A flexible conductor track () for connecting electronic modules, includes conductor track structures (), two connecting regions () for electrically connecting the conductor track structures () to corresponding conductor tracks of electronic modules, and at least one long slit () in a region () in the conductor track () located between the two connecting regions. At least one of the connecting regions is designed to be connected to a corresponding connecting region of an electronic module by anisotropic conductive film adhesive (ACFA) bonding.

Flexible conductor track for connecting electronic modules, particularly modules of a camera to be installed in a vehicle

A camera system for a vehicle includes a camera and an image evaluating unit. The camera is arranged in an interior of the vehicle behind a windowpane of the vehicle so that the camera can record an image sequence with a plurality of external recordings of external surroundings of the vehicle through the windowpane. The image evaluating unit is adapted to detect static image components that are projected into the external recordings by reflections on the windowpane, and to extract the detected static image components from the external recordings.

Camera system for a vehicle

A driver assistance system of a motor vehicle includes a lighting system of the motor vehicle, having an illumination unit that illuminates a scene in the surroundings of the vehicle by projecting a number of actuatable pixels, whereby the illumination unit projects a predefined pattern onto the scene. An image capture unit captures an image of at least part of the scene. A computation unit computes at least one geometric property of the scene based on the captured image and the predefined pattern.

Lighting system for ascertaining geometric properties, and driver assistance system and method therefor

A camera device includes an optronics system and an image capture control unit, for acquiring a sequence of images of a surrounding region of a vehicle. The optronics system includes a wide-angle optical system and a high-resolution image acquisition sensor. The optronics system and the image capture control unit are configured to generate a reduced-resolution binned image of the entire capture region of the optronics system, or to capture an unbinned high-resolution image of a subregion of the capture region, respectively for each individual image of the sequence of images, depending on a current traffic and/or surrounding situation. A height and a width of the subregion are set depending on the current situation. A size of the subregion is set such that the pixel count of the high-resolution image of the subregion is no greater than the pixel count of the reduced-resolution image of the entire capture region.

Camera device and method for capturing a surrounding region of a vehicle in a situation-adapted manner

A camera device () for capturing a surrounding area of a driver's own vehicle has optoelectronics including a high-resolution image capturing sensor and a wide-angle optical system for capturing at least one initial image of the surrounding area. The optoelectronics are configured to generate, from the at least one initial image, a processed output image () that has, compared to the associated initial image, at least one non-modified image section () and a resolution-reduced remainder image region () bordering on the at least one non-modified image section ().

Camera device for capturing a surrounding area of a driver's own vehicle and method for providing a driver assistance function

A camera device for detecting a surrounding area of a subject vehicle has optoelectronics including a high-resolution image capturing sensor and a wide-angle optical system. The optoelectronics are designed to output an image sequence of the surrounding area with a periodic variation of high-resolution images and resolution-reduced images.

Camera device and method for detecting a surrounding area of a driver's own vehicle

A method of saving image data of a camera in an accident data recorder of a vehicle involves: a) performing object recognition to determine object data regarding objects detected from the camera image data; b) compressing the camera image data by a lossy compression method to form compressed image data; c) storing the object data and the compressed image data in a storage unit; d) overwriting the data in the storage unit after a predefined volume of data has been stored; and e) statically saving the object data and the compressed image data in response to a trigger signal.

Method for saving image data of a camera in an accident data recorder of a vehicle

A stereo camera () for a vehicle includes a first camera (), which has a first image sensor () and the camera field of vision (S) of which has a first opening angle (&#x3b1;), and a second camera (), which has a second image sensor () and the camera field of vision (S) of which has a second opening angle (&#x3b1;). The second opening angle (&#x3b1;) is greater than the first opening angle (&#x3b1;). The first camera () has a first lens optical unit () and the second camera () has a second lens optical unit (), which both have an angular resolution that is higher in a central region (Z, Z) of the field of vision (S, S) lying in the angular range (&#x3b1;) around the optical axis (O) than outside of the central region. The cameras are arranged so that the fields of vision (S, S) overlap.

Stereo camera for vehicles

A method and an apparatus determine a road condition using a vehicle camera. At least one image is acquired using the camera. A first image area that includes an image of the road surface is determined in the at least one image. A classifier assigns the first image area to at least one class (among pre-established classes) that represents a specific road condition of the road surface. Information regarding this specific road condition is output.

Method and apparatus for determining a road condition

An apparatus and a method are for detecting precipitation on a windscreen of a motor vehicle. A camera device records a first image and thereafter a second image. A comparison device produces a first comparison image by comparing the first image with the second image. An image detection device identifies objects on the first comparison image, and determines motion of the objects, to detect whether there is precipitation on the windscreen.

Apparatus and method for detecting precipitation for a motor vehicle

In a method for evaluating image data of a vehicle camera, information about raindrops on the vehicle's windshield within the field of view of the camera is taken into account in the evaluation of the image data for detection and classification of objects in the environment of the vehicle. Particularly, for example, depending on the number and the size of the raindrops on the windshield, different detection algorithms, image evaluation criteria, classification parameters, or classification algorithms are used for the detection and classification of objects.

Method for evaluating image data of a vehicle camera taking into account information about rain

A device and a method for detecting rain on a pane, e.g. of a motor vehicle, use a camera or other light sensor and a lighting source. The camera is disposed behind an inner surface of the pane and focused onto a far range that lies in front of an outer surface of the pane. The lighting source generates a source light beam and directs it onto the inner surface of the pane such that at least one resultant reflected beam (r; r') that is reflected from the outer surface of the pane impinges on the camera. The light quantity of the at least one resultant reflected beam is measured by the camera.

Detection of raindrops on a pane by means of a camera and lighting

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