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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2024
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Jonglee Park, Novi, MI (US);
Julien P. Mourou, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Charles R. Quinn, Pleasant Ridge, MI (US);
Manoj Kumar Sharma, Troy, MI (US);
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes at least one exterior facing camera and a viewing screen in communication with a controller. The camera includes a red green blue (RGB) imaging sensor and a near infrared (NIR) imaging sensor. An ambient light sensor is disposed on the vehicle and detects a magnitude of ambient lighting in an exterior environment. The controller stores instructions for: Receiving a RGB image from the RGB imaging sensor at a time t, receiving a NIR image from the NIR imaging sensor at the time t, and receiving a lumens value of the ambient light at the time t. Preprocessing the RGB image into a processed RGB image using one of a plurality of preprocessing techniques dependent upon the lumens magnitude of the ambient lighting. Fusing the processed RGB image and the NIR image into a single viewing image using a neural network. Displaying the viewing image.