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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2019
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Nikhil Gupta, Brampton, CA;
Hilda Faraji, Toronto, CA;
Daan He, Toronto, CA;
Ghanshyam Rathi, Mississauga, CA;
MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for dynamically calibrating without manual intervention a forward viewing vehicular camera with respect to its three rotational degrees of freedom includes disposing a camera at a vehicle and operating the camera to acquire multiple frames of image data as the vehicle is moving and steered through a plurality of steering angles. Feature points are determined in an image frame when the vehicle is steered within a respective range of steering angles and motion trajectories of those feature points are tracked in subsequent image frames for the respective range of steering angles. A vanishing point is established in the image plane for the feature points for the respective range of steering angles. Based on established vanishing points, a vanishing line is determined. When the vanishing line is determined to be non-horizontal, at least one of pitch, roll or yaw of the camera is adjusted.