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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2021
Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh, Ingolstadt, DE;
Christian Scharfenberger, Lindau, DE;
Michelle Karg, Lindau, DE;
CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
There is disclosed a method and a device for avoiding accidents caused by wild animals crossing at dusk and at night by a vehicle-mounted camera system. The method for the brightness conversion of input image data of the camera into output image data includes the following steps: a) capturing input image data of a current brightness of a roadway and an adjacent region to the side of the roadway by f a vehicle-mounted camera system at dusk or at night, b) converting the input image data into output image data with a different brightness by a trained artificial neural network, and c) outputting the output image data so that the output image data can be displayed to the driver of the vehicle for the purpose of avoiding accidents involving wild animals or so that a wild animal can be recognized from the output image data by an image recognition function.