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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Seyed Armin Raeis Hosseiny, Canton, MI (US);
Luke Niewiadomski, Dearborn, MI (US);
Roger Arnold Trombley, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Donald Jacob Mattern, Canton, MI (US);
Craig Schmatz, Birmingham, MI (US);
Li Xu, Northville, MI (US);
Arnav Sharma, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for assisting in aligning a vehicle for hitching with a trailer includes a controller that receives the scene data and identifying the trailer within the area to the rear of the vehicle, derives a backing path to align a hitch ball mounted on the vehicle to a coupler of the trailer, outputting a powertrain control signal to the vehicle powertrain control system, and a brake control signal to the vehicle brake system to maneuver the vehicle, including reversing along the backing path and stopping the vehicle at an endpoint of the path, and outputs a video image to the vehicle human-machine interface including a graphical overlay on the image data. The graphical overlay indicates potential movement of the hitch ball past the coupler and being positioned in the image data between a bumper of the vehicle and the hitch ball.