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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2023
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Jyothi P. Gali, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Mohammadmehdi Jalalmaab, Waterloo, CA;
Prasanna Ananthakrishnan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Harold E. Joseph, Brampton, CA;
Alexander Velichko, Toronto, CA;
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicular trailer assist system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing at least a portion of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. The system, during a first turning maneuver of a calibration maneuver of the vehicle and trailer, stores a subset of the frames of image data captured by the camera. Each stored frame of the stored subset of the frames captures the trailer at a respective different trailer angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The system determines image data edges for each stored frame of image data. The system, after performing the first turning maneuver of the calibration maneuver and during a second turning maneuver of the calibration maneuver, and based at least in part on the determined image data edges for the stored frames of image data, determines a jack-knife angle of the trailer relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.