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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Zheng Hu, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Erick Michael Lavoie, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/60 (2017.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/004 (2013.01); G06T 7/0085 (2013.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); B60R 2300/808 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20112 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for detecting a hitch angle between a vehicle and a trailer is provided herein. An imaging device is configured to capture images of the trailer and a controller is configured to process the captured images. The controller derives an edge map and identifies trailer pixels therein. The controller defines a number of candidate lines in the edge map and determines the hitch angle based on an angle between a selected candidate line and a reference line.