Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular trailering assist system with hitch ball detection
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Application No.: US17443257Application Date: 2021-07-23
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Publication No.: US11702017B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Jyothi P. Gali , Harold E. Joseph , Prasanna Ananthakrishnan , Alexander Velichko
- Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Agency: Honigman LLP
- Main IPC: B60R11/04
- IPC: B60R11/04 ; B60R1/00

Abstract:
A vehicular trailer assist system includes a camera at a vehicle and viewing at least a portion of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. A control, responsive to processing of frames of image data captured by the camera and during a calibration maneuver by the vehicle, determines an initial trailer template of trailer hitched to the vehicle. The control, during a turning portion of the calibration maneuver, and at least in part via processing of frames of image data captured by the camera, determines a hitch ball location of a hitch of the vehicle based on the determined initial trailer template. The control, after completion of the calibration maneuver, determines a current trailer angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle via processing of frames of image data captured by the camera and based on the determined hitch ball location as the vehicle is driven along a road.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220024391A1 VEHICULAR TRAILERING ASSIST SYSTEM WITH HITCH BALL DETECTION Public/Granted day:2022-01-27
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