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公开(公告)号:US20200079164A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-12
申请号:US16566165
申请日:2019-09-10
Applicant: Connaught Electronics Ltd.
Inventor: Brian Finan , Mark Moran
Abstract: A method operable in a towing vehicle for determining a state of a trailer being towed by said towing vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle comprises a front facing and a rear facing image capturing device and the method comprises determining respective distances of the rear facing image capturing device and the front facing image capturing device from a surface on which the vehicle lies. Responsive to one or both of: the distance of the rear image capturing device being outside a first threshold, and the distance of the front image capturing device being outside a second threshold, a value indicative the state of the towed trailer is output.