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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2023
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Akbar Assa, Richmond Hill, CA;
Shweta Suresh Daga, Maharashtra, IN;
Brijendra Kumar Bharti, Brampton, CA;
Guruprasad Mani Iyer Shankaranarayanan, Mississauga, CA;
Jyothi P. Gali, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Anoop S. Mann, Brampton, CA;
Alexander Velichko, Toronto, CA;
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicular trailer hitching assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle. During a reversing maneuver of the vehicle toward a trailer that is spaced from the vehicle at a distance from the vehicle, the camera views at least a portion of a front profile of the trailer. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system, via image processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera during the reversing maneuver of the vehicle toward the trailer, determines a plurality of landmarks corresponding to the front profile of the trailer. Based at least in part on the determined plurality of landmarks, the vehicular trailer hitching assist system determines location of a trailer coupler of the trailer.