Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Stoneridge, Inc.

Stoneridge Electronics Ab

Nguyen Phan

Raj Sohmshetty

Troy Otis Cooprider

Liang Ma

Elizabeth Bullard

Robert J Hess

Mohammad Gudarzi

Wenpeng Wei

Utkarsh Sharma

Saif Imran

Kyle Lee Fleeger

A method for automatically panning a view for a commercial vehicle includes receiving a video feed from at least one camera defining a field of view. A plurality of objects in the video feed, includes at least one wheel and at least one line, are identified. A path of each object in the plurality of objects is tracked through an image plane of the video feed. A trailer angle corresponding to each path is identified, the identified trailer angle is associated with the corresponding path, thereby generating a plurality of trailer angle measurements. The plurality of paths are down selected to a single path and identifying a single trailer angle measurement corresponding to the single path.

Auto panning camera monitoring system including image based trailer angle detection

A method of adjusting a position of a blank entering a furnace includes measuring a position of a heated blank exiting the furnace, recording one or more offset values from a nominal value of the heated blank exiting the furnace, calculating a revised position of a subsequent blank entering the furnace as a function of the one or more offset values, and adjusting a position of the subsequent blank entering the furnace as a function of the one or more offset values. The position of the heated blank exiting the furnace can be measured with an electronic vision system, a robot can adjust the position of the subsequent blank, and offset value(s) can be an elapsed furnace operation time, a number of heated blanks that have exited the furnace, and a physical dimension between an actual position of the heated blank and the nominal value of the heated blank.

System and method for heating metal blanks

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