公开(公告)号：US20240193743A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18064739

申请日：2022-12-12

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Emre TURGAY ,  Barry DEVER ,  Mark Patrick GRIFFIN ,  Jonathan HORGAN

IPC: G06T5/00 ,  G06T5/50 ,  G06T7/254

CPC classification number: G06T5/002 ,  G06T5/50 ,  G06T7/254 ,  G06T2207/10016 ,  G06T2207/20224 ,  G06T2207/30252

Abstract: A method for reducing temporal noise in an image sequence by a camera of an assistance system of a motor vehicle by an electronic computing device. The method includes capturing a first image and a second image of the image sequence of an environment of the motor vehicle by the camera at a first point and a second point in time. Furthermore, determining at least one feature in the second image and determining of pixels associated with the at least one feature in the second image by the feature capturing module. Moreover, generating a weighting map comprising a weight value for each pixel of the second image by an adaptive motion estimation module. Lastly, reducing the temporal noise by blending pixels of the first image with pixels of the second image in dependence on the generated weighting map by a blending module.

公开(公告)号：US20240049435A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-08

申请号：US18256751

申请日：2021-12-08

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Shane Trout

IPC: H05K7/20

CPC classification number: H05K7/20863 ,  H05K7/20172 ,  H05K7/2039

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical ventilator (7) for a temperature control device (16) of an electronic computing device (3), with a housing (10), in which an electrical ventilation device (17) of the electrical ventilator (7) is arranged, and with an electrical contact device (14), which is formed for contacting with a further electrical contact device (15) of the electronic computing device (3), wherein the contact device (14) is formed for transferring at least electrical energy from the electronic computing device (3) to the electrical ventilation device (17), wherein the housing (10) comprises a shaft (18), which is formed for plunging into a recess (19) corresponding thereto on a further housing (9) of the electronic computing device (3) in certain areas, wherein the contact device (14) is fixed in the shaft (18) and is formed for wirelessly and directly contacting with the further contact device (15). Further, the invention relates to an arrangement (21) as well as to an electronic computing device (3).

公开(公告)号：US11832019B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17821874

申请日：2022-08-24

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Mark Griffin ,  Aidan Casey ,  Emre Turgay ,  Alex Perkins

IPC: H04N5/265 ,  H04N5/268 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V20/56 ,  H04N23/76 ,  H04N23/90 ,  H04N9/64 ,  H04N9/67 ,  H04N9/68 ,  B60R1/22

CPC classification number: H04N5/265 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V20/588 ,  H04N5/268 ,  H04N9/646 ,  H04N9/67 ,  H04N9/68 ,  H04N23/76 ,  H04N23/90 ,  B60R1/22 ,  B60R2300/105 ,  B60R2300/20 ,  B60R2300/304

Abstract: An image processing method for harmonizing images acquired by a first camera and a second camera connected to a vehicle and arranged in such a way as their fields of view cover a same road space at different times as the vehicle travels along a travel direction is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring by a selected camera, a first image at a first time; selecting a first region of interest bounding a road portion from the first image; sampling the first region of interest; acquiring by the other camera, a second image in such a way that the road portion is included in a second region of interest; sampling the second region of interest; and determining one or more correction parameters for harmonizing images acquired by the first and second cameras, based on a comparison between the image content of the first and second regions of interest.

公开(公告)号：US11743438B1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17656359

申请日：2022-03-24

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Mark Patrick Griffin ,  Brian Michael Thomas Deegan

IPC: H04N9/64 ,  G06T7/90 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N5/262 ,  G06T5/50 ,  G06V20/56

CPC classification number: H04N9/646 ,  G06T5/50 ,  G06T7/90 ,  G06V20/588 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N5/2624 ,  G06T2207/10024 ,  G06T2207/20212 ,  G06T2207/30252

Abstract: A method for reducing a color shift of image pixels of an image for a motor vehicle captured by a camera, a computer program product and a control device for the vehicle are disclosed. For the respective image pixel of the image, the method involves determining a color information, which describes a color of the image pixel, checking whether the determined color information is larger than a minimum color information and smaller than a maximum color information, wherein the minimum and maximum color information delimit a color information range, in which reference image pixels describing a reference object sway. When the checking is successful, calculating a corrected color information in consideration of the determined color information and a correction factor and providing the calculated corrected color information instead of the determined color information, wherein the corrected color information in comparison to the determined color information has a reduced color shift.

公开(公告)号：US11724742B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US16754289

申请日：2018-10-12

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： German Feijoo ,  Bassam Abdallah ,  Catherine Enright ,  Margaret Toohey ,  Jonathan Horgan

IPC: B62D15/02 ,  B60W30/06 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V10/772 ,  G06V10/46 ,  G06V10/40 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V20/56

CPC classification number: B62D15/0285 ,  B60W30/06 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G05D1/0221 ,  G06V10/40 ,  G06V10/462 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V10/772 ,  G06V20/56 ,  G06V20/586

Abstract: A method for automatically parking a vehicle in a parking slot involves manually driving the vehicle into the parking slot in a training step, and thereafter automatically driving the vehicle into the parking slot in a replay step. Automatically driving the vehicle into the parking slot involves detecting information of features of the environment of the vehicle corresponding to the driven trajectory, matching feature descriptors of the detected features of the environment with feature descriptors stored in the digital map, and re-localizing the vehicle against the trajectory stored in the digital map in order to navigate the vehicle along the stored trajectory into the parking slot. Automatically driving the vehicle into the parking slot is repeated multiple times, and involves deleting a feature descriptor stored in the digital map if the number of matches does not exceed a threshold after a predefined number of repetitions.

公开(公告)号：US20230162464A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

申请号：US17917719

申请日：2021-04-07

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Mahesh Kondiparthi ,  Fergal O'malley

IPC: G06V10/10 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06T5/00 ,  H04N5/265

CPC classification number: G06V10/16 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06T5/002 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N7/181

Abstract: A method, for detecting an artefact in a stitched image, comprises: acquiring component images of an environment from respective vehicle mounted cameras with overlapping fields of view; forming (410) a stitched image from the component images; processing (420) at least a portion of the stitched image corresponding to the overlapping field of view with a classifier to provide a list of detected objects from the environment at respective locations in the stitched image; determining (430) whether any detected object in the list of detected objects is a duplicate of another object in the list of detected objects; and reporting any objects that are determined to be duplicates.

公开(公告)号：US11370429B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US16499621

申请日：2018-03-27

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Swaroop Kaggere Shivamurthy

IPC: B60W30/16 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06V20/56

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling a distance of a vehicle (10) to a closest preceding vehicle (60), whereby the vehicle (10) has a trailer (12) connected thereto, comprising the steps of determining a velocity of the vehicle (10), detecting a closest preceding vehicle (60), determining a distance (62) to the closest preceding vehicle (60), and determining a safe distance based on the velocity of the vehicle (10) and the distance (62) to the closest preceding vehicle (60), wherein the method further comprises determining an extra safe distance based on at least one characteristic of the trailer (12), and performing a control of the distance (62) to the closest preceding vehicle (60) to stay above the safe distance plus the extra safe distance. The present invention also refers to a driving assistance system (14) for a vehicle (10), which is adapted to perform the above method. The present invention further refers to a vehicle (10) with an above driving assistance system (14).

公开(公告)号：US11236991B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US14449200

申请日：2014-08-01

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Perikles Rammos

IPC: G01B11/14 ,  G01S11/12 ,  G01C3/06 ,  G06T7/269 ,  G06T7/593

Abstract: A method for determining a current distance and/or a current speed of a target object relative to a motor vehicle based on an image of the target object, in which the image is provided by a camera of the motor vehicle, where characteristic features of the target object are extracted from the image and a reference point associated with the target object is determined based on the characteristic features for determining the distance and/or the speed, wherein the distance and/or the speed are determined based on the reference point, and a baseline is determined in the image based on the characteristic features, which is in a transition area from the depicted target object to a ground surface depicted in the image, and a point located on the baseline is determined as the reference point.

公开(公告)号：US11044395B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-22

申请号：US16960431

申请日：2018-12-20

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Arturo Crespo De La Vina

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  B60R1/00 ,  H04N5/247 ,  H04N7/18

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a representation of an environment (U) of a vehicle (1) including the steps of: capturing respective images by means of a first camera (2) and a second camera (2) generating a virtual image (31) of a virtual camera (3) from the images, wherein at least a first perspective, in which the environment (U) of the vehicle (1) is represented from a bird's eye perspective, for a first virtual camera position (33) and a second perspective, in which exclusively an area of the environment (U) of the vehicle (1) rearwards related to the vehicle (1) is represented, for a second virtual camera position (44) of the virtual camera (3) are selectable for the virtual image. In order to allow an improved overview, it is provided that the representation of the environment (U) by the virtual image (31) is adapted to a shift of the virtual camera (3) towards an interior mirror (8) of the vehicle (1) upon switching from the first perspective to the second perspective of the virtual image (31) and to a rotation of the virtual camera (3) upon reaching a mirror plane of the interior mirror (8).

公开(公告)号：US20210173286A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US17258593

申请日：2019-07-04

Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.

Inventor： Joseph Estremera

IPC: G03B17/55 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H05K7/20 ,  B60R11/04 ,  F28D1/047

Abstract: The invention relates to a camera (4) for a motor vehicle (1), with an outer housing (9) and with a heat dissipating device (18) for dissipating heat from the camera (4), wherein the heat dissipating device (18) comprises a duct (19) for conveying a liquid or gaseous heat absorption medium, wherein the duct (19) is arranged at the outer housing (9). The invention also relates to a device (32) and a motor vehicle (1).