Adaptive illumination for a time-of-flight camera on a vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US11019274B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US16127022

    申请日:2018-09-10

    Applicant: TuSimple, Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for capturing an image. In one aspect an electronic camera apparatus includes an image sensor with a plurality of pixel regions. The apparatus further includes an exposure controller. The exposure controller determines, for each of the plurality of pixel regions, a corresponding exposure duration and a corresponding exposure start time. Each pixel region begins to integrate incident light starting at the corresponding exposure start time and continues to integrate light for the corresponding exposure duration. In some example embodiments, at least two of the corresponding exposure durations or at least two of the corresponding exposure start times are different in the image.

    ADAPTIVE ILLUMINATION FOR A TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA ON A VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20200084361A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US16127022

    申请日:2018-09-10

    Applicant: TuSimple

    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for capturing an image. In one aspect an electronic camera apparatus includes an image sensor with a plurality of pixel regions. The apparatus further includes an exposure controller. The exposure controller determines, for each of the plurality of pixel regions, a corresponding exposure duration and a corresponding exposure start time. Each pixel region begins to integrate incident light starting at the corresponding exposure start time and continues to integrate light for the corresponding exposure duration. In some example embodiments, at least two of the corresponding exposure durations or at least two of the corresponding exposure start times are different in the image.

    System and method for image localization based on semantic segmentation

    公开(公告)号:US10558864B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-11

    申请号:US15598727

    申请日:2017-05-18

    Applicant: TuSimple

    Abstract: A system and method for image localization based on semantic segmentation are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving image data from an image generating device mounted on an autonomous vehicle; performing semantic segmentation or other object detection on the received image data to identify and label objects in the image data and produce semantic label image data; identifying extraneous objects in the semantic label image data; removing the extraneous objects from the semantic label image data; comparing the semantic label image data to a baseline semantic label map; and determining a vehicle location of the autonomous vehicle based on information in a matching baseline semantic label map.

    Vanishing point computation and online alignment system and method for image guided stereo camera optical axes alignment

    公开(公告)号:US11158088B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US15701409

    申请日:2017-09-11

    Applicant: TuSimple, Inc.

    Abstract: A method of aligning optical axes of cameras for a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs is disclosed. The one or more programs comprise instructions, which when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform by one or more autonomous vehicle driving modules execution of processing of images using the following steps comprising: disposing a planar pattern that is viewable to a set of cameras; recovering boundary corner points of the planar pattern from a pair of images; constructing a pair of parallel lines based on 2D positions of the recovered boundary corner points; and determining an intersection point of the pair of parallel lines to be a vanishing point in a pixel coordinate.

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