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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2007
Tonnie Michael Boyles, Louisville, MS (US);
Matthew Craig Hillyer, Louisville, MS (US);
Meny Benady, Tel Aviv, IL;
Erez Dagan, Rehovot, IL;
Yoram Gdalyahu, Jerusalem, IL;
Eran Herzberg, Tel Aviv, IL;
Tonnie Michael Boyles, Louisville, MS (US);
Matthew Craig Hillyer, Louisville, MS (US);
Meny Benady, Tel Aviv, IL;
Erez Dagan, Rehovot, IL;
Yoram Gdalyahu, Jerusalem, IL;
Eran Herzberg, Tel Aviv, IL;
Mobileye Technologies, Ltd., Nicosia, CY;
Taylor Machine Works, Louisville, MS (US);
Abstract
A system mounted on a powered industrial vehicle for detecting classifying and tracking in real time at least one obstruction in the scene around the vehicle. The vehicle is capable of moving in multiple directions. The system includes a multiple cameras mounted on the vehicle, wherein the viewing zones viewed respectively by the cameras preferably encompass 360° horizontally around the vehicle. Each of the cameras is operatively attached to an image processor, which processes the image frames acquired respectively by the camera. When a pedestrian is present in the viewing zone viewed by one of the cameras, the image processor attached to the one camera identifies in at least one of the image frames at least a portion of an image of the detected pedestrian.