Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Aumovio Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Markus Friebe

Andreas Panakos

Georg Arbeiter

Joerg Schrepfer

Johannes Petzold

Charlotte Gloger

Rodrigo Garcia Marques

Martin Buerker

Sudhan Dhana Sekaran

Frank Kittmann

Moritz Meyers

Sukumar Srikanth

Stefan Milz

Denis Selensky

Felix Loehr

Peerayut Khongsab

Pavan Nag Prabhakar

Nikola Dojcinovic

Pavannag Prabhakar

Joachim Wiest

Thomas Kutschera

Markus Eich

Martin Simon

Abhishek Ranjan

Chetan Gotur

Martin Bürker

Jörg Schrepfer

Felix LÖHR

Frank Edling

Martin BÜRKER

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for displaying surround view in a vehicle. A first image is captured at a first time instant and a second image is captured at a second time instant, from a camera mounted on the vehicle. The first image is different from the second image. While capturing the first and second images, one or more vehicle motion parameters from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle are received. Further, a corrected image is composed using the first image, the second image and the one or more vehicle motion parameters. Thereafter, the corrected image is displayed on a display unit of the vehicle.

Vehicle surround view system and method thereof

The present disclosure provides a method for providing a visualization of a vehicle, the method having the steps: receiving, for each vehicle camera of a plurality of vehicle cameras of the vehicle, current values of camera extrinsic parameters of said vehicle camera; receiving vehicle suspension data relating to a suspension of wheels of the vehicle; and visualizing the vehicle using a predefined model of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle is visualized on a ground surface; wherein the ground surface is modelled to contact the wheels of the vehicle, based on the current values of the camera extrinsic parameters of the vehicle cameras and based on the suspension data.

Method and device for providing a visualization of a vehicle, and vehicle

The invention relates to a driver assistance system () for a vehicle () for detecting light conditions in the vehicle (), having a sensor arrangement () designed to capture sensor data, and having a control device () designed to ascertain if the sight of a driver of the vehicle () is negatively influenced by a source of stray light external to the vehicle.

Method for detecting light conditions in a vehicle

A method and apparatus for generating an image of vehicle surroundings are disclosed, including: capturing vehicle surroundings by vehicle cameras arranged on a vehicle body of a vehicle, and generating camera images by the cameras. The camera images of adjacent cameras have overlapping image regions), generating a virtual representation of the surroundings in a virtual three-dimensional space, during which the camera images are projected onto a virtual projection surface in the space. A non-stationary virtual camera in the virtual space determines a position and/or orientation thereof. A first selection region is placed on the surface in a first overlapping image region depending on a virtual camera field of vision, at least one image parameter of a first vehicle camera in the first selection region is calculated, and at least one second vehicle image parameter is adjusted to the at least one first vehicle image parameter in the first selection region.

Method for generating an image of vehicle surroundings, and apparatus for generating an image of vehicle surroundings

The exemplary embodiments relate to a parking assistance system for a vehicle, designed to present surroundings of the vehicle. The parking assistance system can include at least one camera designed to record at least one image. The parking assistance system may use a grid structure to present the surroundings of the vehicle for a user. Additionally, the parking assistance system may have an image evaluation unit designed to determine the relative position and the orientation of another vehicle depicted in the image. Additionally, the image evaluation unit may be designed to adapt a grid structure on the basis of the determined orientation of the other vehicle, with the image being projected onto the adapted grid structure.

Parking assistance system

A device and a method for displaying vehicle surroundings in a vehicle during an instantaneous second time point are provided. The method includes providing a first blind area image that contains an image synthesis of a blind area of the vehicle surroundings at a first time point preceding the second time point, arranging each first blind area pixel of the blind area in a new position estimated for the second time point, determining whether the new position of each first blind area pixel at the second time point still lies within the blind area, and producing a respective second blind area pixel for the second time point by synthesizing each first blind area pixel on the basis of motion data of the vehicle if the new position is determined to lie within the blind area.

Method and device for displaying vehicle surroundings

A method includes the steps: a) capturing image of an environment surrounding a vehicle by a camera; b) determining an area of increased brightness in the image based on pixels having a brightness exceeding a predefined threshold; c) estimating position coordinates of a light source in the environment from the area of increased brightness; d) detecting a shadow of the vehicle in the image; and e) determining a type of the light source as a spot light source or a direction light source from the shadow, environment.

Estimation of position coordinates of light sources in images of the surrounding environment

A system is configured to repair artefacts in image data when representing vehicle surroundings. This involves: detecting an artefact-comprising area of a vehicle camera for a first time point, creating a reconstructed version of the artefact-comprising area from image data of an adjacent image area, determining a sample point of the artefact-comprising area, transforming the sample point to a new location predicted for a second time point, determining whether the new location still lies within the artefact-comprising area, and if so updating the artefact-comprising area in the image for the second time point by using motion-compensated image data from the reconstructed version of the sample point from the first time point.

Method and system for representation of vehicle surroundings with reduced artefacts

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 method and an apparatus are for adapting image processing based on a shape of a display device for a motor vehicle. The apparatus includes: a capture device configured to capture a shape of a display device, an extrinsic camera parameter of a camera, an intrinsic camera parameter of the camera, and a of view of the camera; an arithmetic unit configured to calculate a reprojection surface and a correspondence table based on the captured shape of the display device, the extrinsic camera parameter, the intrinsic camera parameter, and the field of view; and an image processing device configured to perform adapted image processing that is adapted based on the reprojection surface and the correspondence table.

Apparatus and method for adapting image processing based on a shape of a display device for a motor 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

A surround view system for a vehicle includes a processor () and cameras (to) that can be arranged on the vehicle so that the cameras (to) can record images of an outside environment of the vehicle. The processor is configured to analyze a position (&#x3b1;) and/or a movement of a movable part () of the vehicle () and to generate a composite image of the outside environment from individual images recorded by the cameras. Furthermore, the processor is configured to calculate an image processing region within the composite image for an adaptive image processing, to determine, based on the analyzed position and/or movement of the movable part (), that a back-projection of the movable part () goes beyond the image processing region, and to modify the image processing region so that the back-projection of the movable part () is within the modified image processing region.

Surround view system for a vehicle

A driver assistance system () for a vehicle includes environment sensors (), which sense a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and a data processing unit (), which evaluates sensor data of the environment sensors () to detect obstacles (H) in the vehicle environment. In accordance with detected obstacles (H), concealed regions (VB) in the vehicle environment of the vehicle are determined, which concealed regions are concealed by the obstacles (H) and restrict a field of view (FOV) of optical environment sensors () of the driver assistance system ().

Method and device for determining concealed regions in the vehicle environment of a vehicle

In a freespace detection apparatus and method, a camera provides at least first and second image data captured at different points in time. A motion vector of the camera is detected and assigned to the image data. The image data is transformed with respect to a predetermined, configurable image plane, and motion compensation of the transformed image data is performed. Difference image data between the motion compensated transformed image data and the transformed second image data is computed, and an object is identified in the computed difference image data.

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