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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2018
Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh, Nuremberg, DE;
Elias Strigel, Wangen, DE;
Stefan Heinrich, Achern, DE;
Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH, Nuremberg, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting a traffic light phase for a motor vehicle, includes: an image sensor device (), configured to capture an image of a traffic light and to provide the image as image data; a segmentation device () configured to define at least one partial region of the captured image and to assign it to at least one signal lamp of the traffic light; a scaling device (), configured to determine a maximum color saturation and/or a maximum brightness in the at least one partial region; and a computer device () configured to determine a signal status of the traffic light based on the maximum color saturation and/or the maximum brightness.