Method and apparatus for triggering hitch view

    公开(公告)号:US10358089B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-23

    申请号:US15471453

    申请日:2017-03-28

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for triggering a hitch view are provided. The method includes: determining whether a hitch of a vehicle will be coupling with a trailer coupler of a trailer, in response to determining that the hitch of the vehicle will be coupling with the trailer coupler, detecting a position of the trailer coupler, and displaying a view of the trailer coupler corresponding to the detected position of the trailer coupler from among a plurality of views. The method may assist an operator of a vehicle in aligning the vehicle hitch with a trailer coupler.

    Method and apparatus for estimating articulation angle

    公开(公告)号:US10346705B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15628030

    申请日:2017-06-20

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for trailer recognition are provided. The method includes detecting a face of a trailer in a first and second image, taken at first and second distances respectively, generating a bounding box around the face of the trailer in the first and second images, determining a first and second set of feature points in the bounding boxes of the first and second images, determining a correspondence between the first set of feature points and the second set of feature points and a correspondence between corners of the bounding boxes and estimating at least one dimension of the trailer by performing a least squares analysis to solve for three-dimensional real world coordinates of the first and second set of features points and the corners of the bounding boxes. The method may assist an operator of a vehicle in aligning the vehicle hitch with a trailer coupler.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HYBRID GROUND CLEARANCE DETERMINATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190035057A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US15664645

    申请日:2017-07-31

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining ground clearance of a structure are provided. The method includes removing reflection points caused by noise from first reflection point information based on temporal persistency and generating second reflection point information, extracting visual features from an image of a camera based on convolutional neural network, projecting the second reflection point information onto the image, generating region proposals based on the projected second reflection point information and the image, the region proposals indicating potential horizontal structures above a path, detecting stationary horizontal structure above a path based on the generated region proposals, and determining distance between ground and the detected stationary horizontal structure based on the projected reflection point information and the image.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING ARTICULATION ANGLE

    公开(公告)号:US20180365509A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-20

    申请号:US15628030

    申请日:2017-06-20

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for trailer recognition are provided. The method includes detecting a face of a trailer in a first and second image, taken at first and second distances respectively, generating a bounding box around the face of the trailer in the first and second images, determining a first and second set of feature points in the bounding boxes of the first and second images, determining a correspondence between the first set of feature points and the second set of feature points and a correspondence between corners of the bounding boxes and estimating at least one dimension of the trailer by performing a least squares analysis to solve for three-dimensional real world coordinates of the first and second set of features points and the corners of the bounding boxes. The method may assist an operator of a vehicle in aligning the vehicle hitch with a trailer coupler.

    Apparatus and method for hybrid ground clearance determination

    公开(公告)号:US10354368B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15664645

    申请日:2017-07-31

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining ground clearance of a structure are provided. The method includes removing reflection points caused by noise from first reflection point information based on temporal persistency and generating second reflection point information, extracting visual features from an image of a camera based on convolutional neural network, projecting the second reflection point information onto the image, generating region proposals based on the projected second reflection point information and the image, the region proposals indicating potential horizontal structures above a path, detecting stationary horizontal structure above a path based on the generated region proposals, and determining distance between ground and the detected stationary horizontal structure based on the projected reflection point information and the image.

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