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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Donald Jacob Mattern, Canton, MI (US);
Hongtei Eric Tseng, Canton, MI (US);
John Paul Shaw, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jill Plavcan, Canton, MI (US);
Lisa Yeung, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Thomas Edward Pilutti, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle hitch assistance system includes comprising an imaging system, a steering system, a dead reckoning device and a controller. The controller determines a hitch location within a vehicle exterior image received from the imaging system and controls the steering system to guide the vehicle in a reverse direction to align a hitch ball of the vehicle with the hitch location, including by tracking the location of the vehicle using information received from the dead reckoning device.