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Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2021
Applicant:

GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);

Inventors:

Kathleen Marie Schuetz, Avondale, PA (US);

Andrew W. Averhart, Redford, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/64 (2023.01); B60R 11/04 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0026 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method of detecting and overcoming degradation of image quality during a weather event and activation of windshield wipers. The method takes a high-contrast region of interest (ROI) of an image captured by a camera of a vehicle vision system, applies a Laplacian Operator that focuses on the pixel level in the ROI, and calculates a variance of the Laplacian. Images having an ROI below a predetermined variance threshold are classified or flagged as a low-quality image. Once a low-quality image is flagged, the camera settings can be readjusted in a feedback loop to compensate for the loss in quality of the captured image. This method may be stored as a software routine and implemented by a vision control module of the vision system.


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