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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jeremy John Greenwood, Sutton Coldfield, GB;
Stephen Nicholls, Long Hanborough, GB;
Andrew Stephen Bell Crawford, Warwick, GB;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicletowing a traileris fitted with three video camerasfitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit, is also presented to the driver on the displayas guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unitis also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view.
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