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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Jun Iwamoto, Plain City, OH (US);
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for providing a gear selection indication for a vehicle that includes receiving an image of a gear shifting region of the vehicle from a vehicle camera system. The system and method also include processing the image of the gear shifting region into processed image data. Additionally, the system and method include determining a currently selected gear of a plurality of gears of a transmission unit of the vehicle based on the processed image data. The system and method further include outputting the currently selected gear of the plurality of gears. Outputting the determined currently selected gear includes at least one of: communicating the currently selected gear to a gear selection indicator that presents the determined currently selected gear, and communicating the currently selected gear to vehicle systems.