Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Trailer hitching assist system with trailer coupler detection
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Application No.: US18444847Application Date: 2024-02-19
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Publication No.: US12246646B2Publication Date: 2025-03-11
- Inventor: Akbar Assa , Shweta Suresh Daga , Brijendra Kumar Bharti , Guruprasad Mani Iyer Shankaranarayanan , Jyothi P. Gali , Anoop S. Mann , 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: B60R1/00
- IPC: B60R1/00 ; B60R1/26 ; G06F18/214 ; G06F18/2411 ; G06V20/56

Abstract:
A vehicular trailer hitching assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system, via image processing of image data captured by the camera during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle toward a trailer that is spaced rearward from the vehicle, detects the trailer. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system determines relative location of a trailer coupler of the detected trailer to a hitch ball of the vehicle and determines a path of travel for the vehicle to maneuver the vehicle toward the detected trailer to move the hitch ball of the vehicle toward the trailer coupler. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system at least in part maneuvers the vehicle along the determined path of travel to move the hitch ball of the vehicle toward the trailer coupler of the detected trailer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20240190342A1 TRAILER HITCHING ASSIST SYSTEM WITH TRAILER COUPLER DETECTION Public/Granted day:2024-06-13
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