Autoliv Development Ab

Flir Systems, Incorporated

Ognjan Hedberg

Stefan Johansson

Peter Hall

Tobias Höglund

Joseph Kostrzewa

Leonard Araki

Douglas R Kraemer

Jonas Hammarström

Vincent Mathevon

Per Jonas Hammarström

A driver assistance system () for a motor vehicle comprises an imaging means () for acquiring images from a surrounding of the motor vehicle, and a processing means () adapted to perform image processing of images () recorded by the imaging means () and to detect an oncoming vehicle () by identifying its head lights () as a result of the image processing. The processing means () is adapted to detect, in the recorded images (), a light aura () originating from at least one light source () hidden to the imaging means (), and to use the light aura detection in the oncoming vehicle detection.

Driver assistance system and method for a motor vehicle

A method of automatically detecting objects in front of a motor vehicle comprises the steps of pre-storing template objects representing possible objects in front of the motor vehicle, detecting images from a region in front of the vehicle by a vehicle mounted imaging means, generating a processed image containing disparity or vehicle-to-scene distance information from the detected images, comparing the pre-stored template objects with corresponding regions-of-interest of the processed image, and generating a match result relating to the match between the processed image and the template objects. Each of the pre-stored template objects is a flat two-dimensional multi-pixel area of predetermined shape.

Method and system of automatically detecting objects in front of a motor vehicle

An imaging apparatus including an infrared video camera. The infrared video camera includes a sensor array operable to produce successive video images in the form of pixelated two-dimensional images. The imaging apparatus further comprises a processing arrangement operable to reduce or increase the overall brightness of an image in dependence upon the overall brightness of the pre-enhanced image and the overall brightness of the preceding enhanced image, so that the change in the overall brightness (DC-level) between the enhanced image and the preceding enhanced image is decreased.

Imaging apparatus

Methods and systems for mitigating undesirable video flash in infrared camera systems are disclosed. A frame of video can be stored in a buffer and information related to the frame of video can be processed prior to displaying the video such that the processed information facilitates display of the video substantially without flashing. A display of a non-flashed frame can be frozen while a flash event would otherwise cause a flashed frame to be displayed. The shift in a histogram caused by a flash event or some portion thereof can be subtracted from pixels of an image. Thus, image quality can be substantially enhanced.

Methods and systems for detection and mitigation of image-flash in infrared cameras

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