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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Luke Niewiadomski, Dearborn, MI (US);
Nikhil Nagraj Rao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rick Haubenstricker, Saline, MI (US);
Richard Campbell, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Mark Bowers, Clawson, MI (US);
Lihui Chen, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle control system includes an imager mounted with and directed to a rear of the vehicle and outputting image data, a vehicle speed sensor mounted with the vehicle and outputting vehicle speed data, and an image processor receiving the image data and the vehicle speed data. The image processor is programmed to monitor a signal from the vehicle speed sensor and, when the signal from the vehicle speed sensor indicates a vehicle speed above a predetermined minimum speed, execute a feature extraction function to locate a hitch ball mounted to the vehicle in the image data.