Electric plug for connection to a vehicle camera, as well as arrangement

    公开(公告)号:US12126121B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US17780563

    申请日:2020-11-25

    CPC classification number: H01R13/6582 H01R13/6597 H01R13/22 H01R2201/26

    Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to an electric plug (1) for connection to a vehicle camera (18), comprising a plug head (2) and at least one electric signal contact (4) and at least one ground contact (5), which are configured on the plug head (2), wherein the plug head (2) comprises a carrier block (7) for the signal contact (4) and the ground contact (5), and the carrier block (7) comprises a jacket wall (8), on which a cover collar (9) projecting outwardly and extending circumferentially on the jacket wall (8) is arranged, wherein an outwardly projecting shielding flap (10, 11) of the plug (11) is integrally formed with the cover collar (9), wherein the shielding flap (10, 11) is connected to a connecting element (16), which is electrically connected to the cover collar (9) and the ground contact (5). One aspect relates to an arrangement (17).

    Internally aligned camera and a manufacturing method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US12022173B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US17777720

    申请日:2020-11-19

    Inventor: Eanna Connolly

    Abstract: The invention provides an internally aligned camera device comprising a front housing assembly, a first printed circuit board (PCB), a second PCB and a flexible PCB, a PCB retention cage and a rear housing assembly. The front housing assembly comprises lens elements for forming an image on an image sensor operably coupled to the first PCB, said image sensor optically aligned with said front housing assembly comprising said lens elements. The second PCB is electrically coupled to said first PCB using a flexible PCB, where the second PCB folded over said first circuit board. The PCB retention cage retains the second PCB in position. The rear housing assembly comprises a metal shield which clamps down the second PCB and said PCB retention cage in position. Further, said front housing assembly is centrally aligned and attached with said rear housing assembly. A method of manufacturing the camera device is also described.

    A SYSTEM AND METHOD TO TRACK A COUPLED VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20230154197A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-18

    申请号:US17917390

    申请日:2021-04-07

    CPC classification number: G06V20/58 B60R1/003

    Abstract: A method for providing a yaw angle (105a) between a first vehicle (110) coupled to a second vehicle (100), comprises: receiving an image of the first vehicle from a camera (101) mounted on the second vehicle; performing (210) a polar transformation on the image to form a polar image (400) in a polar space having an origin corresponding to a location of a pivot point (303) of the coupling (302) to the second vehicle in the received image coordinate space; estimating (230) an optical coupling angle by analysing the content of the polar image; receiving a signal from an odometer (102) mounted on the first or second vehicle; estimating a kinematic coupling angle from the signal and a kinematic model of the first vehicle and the coupled second vehicle; and combining the estimated optical coupling angle and the estimated kinematic coupling angle to provide the coupling angle.

    Method and apparatus for enhanced anti-aliasing filtering on a GPU

    公开(公告)号:US11508043B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US16904952

    申请日:2020-06-18

    Inventor: Mark Griffin

    Abstract: A method for reducing abasing artefacts in an output image may include obtaining a plurality of input images captured by a plurality of cameras, each camera having a different field of view of an environment surrounding a vehicle, wherein the plurality of input images are mapped to the output image to represent the environment, from a predefined virtual point of view. The method may further include for each pixel position in the output image, obtaining a first pixel density value corresponding to a first output pixel position in the output image; and upon determining that the first pixel density value is higher than a threshold, calculating a first output brightness value corresponding to the first output pixel position based at least on a plurality of brightness values corresponding to a plurality of neighboring pixels of a corresponding position in a first input image of the plurality of input images.

    Method for autonomously parking a current vehicle along a trained trajectory

    公开(公告)号:US11492012B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US16644688

    申请日:2018-08-28

    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for autonomously parking a current vehicle (40) along a trained trajectory (18), comprising the steps of driving a training vehicle (12) along the trajectory (18) and determining environment information along the trajectory (18), determining trajectory information based on the environment information for parking the current vehicle (40) along the trajectory (18), storing the trajectory information from the training vehicle (12) in a personal storage (34) associated to a driver, transferring the trajectory information from the personal storage (34) to the current vehicle (40), and parking the current vehicle (40) along the trained trajectory (18).

    Method for providing an image representation of at least part of an environment of a vehicle, computer program product and driver assistance system

    公开(公告)号:US11491914B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US17267209

    申请日:2019-07-24

    Inventor: Huanqing Guo

    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing an image representation (15) of an environment (7) of a vehicle (1), wherein the environment (7) of the vehicle (1) is captured at least partly, an image representation (15) of at least one first part (10a) of the captured environment (7) is provided within a defined viewport (10) from a defined perspective (11), wherein the image representation (15) includes a vehicle representation (14) representing the vehicle (1), and wherein the image representation (15) is displayed on a display device (12). Further, when providing the image representation (15) at least one second part (16a) of the captured environment (7) is represented in form of a mirrored image (18) of the at least one second part (16a) of the environment (7) on a defined region (17, 19, 20) of the vehicle representation (14).

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