Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for calibrating a vehicle cabin camera
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Application No.: US17398965Application Date: 2021-08-10
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Publication No.: US11538192B1Publication Date: 2022-12-27
- Inventor: Piotr Stec , Petronel Bigioi
- Applicant: FotoNation Limited
- Applicant Address: IE Galway
- Assignee: FotoNation Limited
- Current Assignee: FotoNation Limited
- Current Assignee Address: IE Galway
- Main IPC: G06T7/80
- IPC: G06T7/80 ; G06T7/13 ; B60R1/12 ; B60R11/04 ; B60R11/00

Abstract:
A method for calibrating a vehicle cabin camera having: a pitch, yaw and roll angle; and a field of view capturing vehicle cabin features which are symmetric about a vehicle longitudinal axis comprises: selecting points from within an image of the vehicle cabin and projecting the points onto a 3D unit circle in accordance with a camera projection model. For each of one or more rotations of a set of candidate yaw and roll rotations, the method comprises: rotating the projected points with the rotation; flipping the rotated points about a pitch axis; counter-rotating the projected points with an inverse of the rotation; and mapping the counter-rotated points back into an image plane to provide a set of transformed points. A candidate rotation which provides a best match between the set of transformed points and the locations of the selected points in the image plane is selected.
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