Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Deere & Company

Conti Ternie Microelectronic Gmbh

Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Aumovio Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Johannes Petzold

Georg Arbeiter

Joerg Schrepfer

Markus Friebe

Rodrigo Garcia Marques

Kilian Wolff

Stefan Milz

Sudhan Dhana Sekaran

Wolfram Haiges

Denis Selensky

Peerayut Khongsab

Martin Simon

Jörg Schrepfer

A method for generating a vehicle environment view involves: capturing camera images with vehicle cameras on a vehicle body of a vehicle; and calculating of the vehicle environment view based on the camera images. In the vehicle environment view, a texture of a non-visible region of a ground surface located under the vehicle body and not visible to the vehicle cameras is calculated based on texture data of a visible region of the ground surface that is visible to vehicles cameras and surrounds the non-visible region.

Method and device for generating a vehicle environment view for a vehicle

A method of generating a vehicle environment view for a vehicle, having has the following steps. Camera images are provided by vehicle cameras on the body of the vehicle. A vehicle environment view is calculated based on the camera images. A texture of a ground surface that is located below the vehicle body and is not visible to the cameras, is determined within the vehicle environment view by performing a local color prediction and a movement-compensated texture prediction.

Method and device for generating a view around a vehicle for a vehicle

A vehicle's panoramic view system includes a non-centered real camera that captures an image of surroundings, a virtual camera, an image processing unit, and a display unit that displays a geometric form overlaid over the captured image. The image processing unit projects the captured image onto a first plane perpendicular to the real camera to correct perspective distortions resulting from the camera's non-centered position, and projects the geometric form onto a second plane perpendicular to the virtual camera to represent the geometric form without distortion on the display unit. The image processing unit finds an affine transformation between the first and second planes by delta transformation between the real and virtual cameras, and applies the affine transformation to the first plane containing the projected distortion-corrected captured image, to align a modified representation of the image with the undistorted geometric form in the second plane.

Panoramic view system for a vehicle

A device provides improved obstacle identification. A first camera acquires first vehicle image data and provides it to a processing unit. A second camera acquires and provides second vehicle image data. An image overlap region has at least a portion of the first vehicle image data and at least a portion of the second vehicle image data. The first and second vehicle image data extend over a ground plane and the image overlap region extends over an overlap region of the ground plane. The processing unit extracts first image features from the first vehicle image data and extracts second image features from the second vehicle image data. The processing unit projects the first and the second image features onto the ground plane. The processing unit produces at least one image of the surroundings, having either at least a portion of the first vehicle image data associated with the overlap region, or at least a portion of the second vehicle image data associated with the overlap region, based in part on the determination of first image features whose projections lie in the overlap region of the ground plane, and on second image features whose projections lie in the overlap region of the ground plane.

Device for providing improved obstacle identification

Device and method for providing a vehicle surround view for a vehicle, which is located on a driving plane, comprising vehicle cameras, which provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, a location-detection unit, which detects a change in location of at least one vehicle camera relative to the driving plane of the vehicle, and comprising an image data processing unit which projects the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras onto a projection surface to generate the vehicle surround view, which projection surface is adapted according to the detected change in location of the vehicle camera.

Device and method for providing a vehicle surround view

A device for providing a vehicle environment view for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle cameras configured to provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and an image data processing unit configured, based on a detected movement space of at least one vehicle component of the vehicle and/or of the entire vehicle, to adapt a projection surface onto which the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras are projected to generate the vehicle environment view.

Device and method for providing a vehicle environment view for a vehicle

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