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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Zheng Hu, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
John P. Joyce, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 13/00 (2006.01); B62D 13/06 (2006.01); B60D 1/30 (2006.01); B60D 1/36 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B60D 1/145 (2006.01); B60D 1/06 (2006.01); B62D 6/00 (2006.01); B62D 5/04 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 13/06 (2013.01); B60D 1/06 (2013.01); B60D 1/145 (2013.01); B60D 1/30 (2013.01); B60D 1/36 (2013.01); B60Q 5/00 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B62D 5/0463 (2013.01); B62D 6/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for detecting a hitch angle between a vehicle and a trailer is provided herein. An imaging device is configured to capture images of the trailer and a controller is configured to process images captured by the imaging device. The controller derives a template image having a trailer contour and matches the template image to a search image. The hitch angle is determined based on a positional relationship between the template image and the search image.