Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle trailer angle detection system and method
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Application No.: US15370223Application Date: 2016-12-06
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Publication No.: US09971943B2Publication Date: 2018-05-15
- Inventor: Jeremy John Greenwood , Stephen Nicholls , Andrew Stephen Bell Crawford
- 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: Price Heneveld LLP
- Agent Frank MacKenzie
- Priority: GB0705336.6 20070321
- Main IPC: B60R1/00
- IPC: B60R1/00 ; G06K9/00 ; B62D13/06 ; B62D15/02 ; G01B11/27 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T7/20 ; G08G1/16 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N7/18 ; B60W50/14

Abstract:
A vehicle 1 towing a trailer 4 is fitted with three video cameras 5, 6, 7 fitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display 11. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit 10, is also presented to the driver on the display 11 as guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unit 10 is also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170083773A1 VEHICLE TRAILER ANGLE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-03-23
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