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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2017
Applicants:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Ghassan AlRegib, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Min-Hung Chen, Decatur, GA (US);
David McCreadie, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Daniel Lewis Boston, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00818 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06K 9/6223 (2013.01); H04N 1/6008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computing device, programmed to: acquire a color image and transform the color image into a color-component map. The computer can be further programmed to process the color-component map to detect a traffic sign by determining spatial coincidence and determining temporal consistency between the color-component map and the traffic sign.