Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-light sensor cleaning
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Application No.: US16239780Application Date: 2019-01-04
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Publication No.: US10943129B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: David Michael Herman , Ashwin Arunmozhi , Venkatesh Krishnan
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- Agent Frank A. MacKenzie
- Main IPC: B60S1/02
- IPC: B60S1/02 ; G06K9/00 ; B60R1/00 ; H04N5/232 ; B60S1/48 ; B60S1/56 ; H04N5/217

Abstract:
A system includes a camera having a field of view, a cleaning apparatus positioned to clean the camera, and a computer communicatively coupled to the camera and the cleaning apparatus. The computer is programmed to detect an obstruction on the camera based on sensing a trajectory of an external light source relative to the field of view in data from the camera, and upon detecting the obstruction, activate the cleaning apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200215972A1 LOW-LIGHT SENSOR CLEANING Public/Granted day:2020-07-09
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