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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
Connaught Electronics Ltd., Tuam, IE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Pantelis Ermilios, Tuam, IE;
Jonathan Horgan, Tuam, IE;
Ciaran Hughes, Tuam, IE;
Guenter Bauer, Petershausen, DE;
Connaught Electronics Ltd., Tuam, IE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for recognizing a raised object on the basis of images in an environmental region of a motor vehicle, comprising: capturing a first image from a first camera and a second image from a second camera, transforming the first and second images into a common reference system, forming gradients over pixel values of pixels along gradient lines in the transformed first and second images, summing gradients along parallel summation lines to form a gradient sum, determining a first pair of the maxima of the gradient sum in the transformed first image and a second pair of the maxima of the gradient sum in the transformed second image, recognizing the raised object, if at least one distance between the maxima of the first pair in the transformed first image deviates from a distance of the maxima of the corresponding second pair in the transformed second image.