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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2022
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Jyothi P. Gali, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Harold E. Joseph, Brampton, CA;
Prasanna Ananthakrishnan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Alexander Velichko, Toronto, CA;
Guruprasad Mani Iyer Shankaranarayanan, Mississauga, CA;
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicular trailer assist system includes a rearward viewing camera viewing a trailer hitched at a fifth wheel hitch at a bed of the vehicle. With the trailer hitched to the vehicle, the vehicular trailer assist system transforms fisheye-view frames of image data captured by the rearward viewing camera into bird's-eye view frames of image data. The vehicular trailer assist system determines the fifth wheel hitch within a transformed bird's-eye view frame of image data. The vehicular trailer assist system warps the transformed bird's-eye view frame of image data, which includes (i) an X-axis that indicates change in a trailer angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle and (ii) a Y-axis that indicates distance from the fifth wheel hitch. The vehicular trailer assist system, using the X-axis of the warped transformed bird's-eye view frame of image data, determines the trailer angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle.