公开(公告)号：US20240187741A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US18443723

申请日：2024-02-16

申请人： Contrast, Inc.

发明人： Willie C. Kiser ,  Nora Tocci ,  Michael D. Tocci

IPC分类号： H04N23/741 ,  B60R1/27 ,  G02B27/10 ,  G02B27/14 ,  G05D1/249 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06V20/58 ,  H04N9/67 ,  H04N9/76 ,  H04N23/10 ,  H04N23/12 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/57 ,  H04N23/698 ,  H04N23/88

CPC分类号： H04N23/741 ,  B60R1/27 ,  G02B27/106 ,  G02B27/1066 ,  G02B27/144 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V20/582 ,  H04N9/67 ,  H04N9/76 ,  H04N23/10 ,  H04N23/12 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/57 ,  H04N23/698 ,  H04N23/88 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/30 ,  G05D1/249 ,  G06T1/20

摘要： The invention provides an autonomous vehicle with a video camera that merges images taken a different light levels by replacing saturated parts of an image with corresponding parts of a lower-light image to stream a video with a dynamic range that extends to include very low-light and very intensely lit parts of a scene. The high dynamic range (HDR) camera streams the HDR video to a HDR system in real time—as the vehicle operates. As pixel values are provided by the camera's image sensors, those values are streamed directly through a pipeline processing operation and on to the HDR system without any requirement to wait and collect entire images, or frames, before using the video information.

公开(公告)号：US11951909B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17807139

申请日：2022-06-16

申请人： JSX Aerospace Holdings, Inc

发明人： Michael Saville ,  Connor Proffitt ,  Justin Judkins

IPC分类号： B60R1/27 ,  B60R11/04 ,  G06F3/04812 ,  G06F3/04847 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N23/51 ,  H04N23/53 ,  B60R11/00

CPC分类号： B60R1/27 ,  B60R11/04 ,  G06F3/04812 ,  G06F3/04847 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N23/51 ,  H04N23/531 ,  B60R2011/004 ,  B60R2011/0085 ,  B60R2011/0092 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/103 ,  B60R2300/406

摘要： An articulatable mount for temporarily affixing a camera and illumination system to a vehicle is disclosed. The articulating drive mechanism is lightweight, vertically compact, and ruggedized for severe service such as withstanding shocks from off-road travel and abrupt maneuvering. Articulation and illumination may be controlled remotely over Wi-Fi from inside or nearby the vehicle, and encrypted video feeds may be received by authorized users of an ad-hoc network of available smart-phone users and in-vehicle computer systems authorized and authenticated to participate in the network.

公开(公告)号：US20240017672A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-18

申请号：US17867469

申请日：2022-07-18

申请人： Caterpillar Inc.

发明人： Aaron R. SHATTERS

IPC分类号： B60R1/28

CPC分类号： B60R1/28 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/105

摘要： In mobile equipment that is configured for remote operation there are the competing interests of minimizing the number and complexity of cameras by using wide-angle cameras, while avoiding the fisheye distortion inherent in wide-angle cameras, which can be disorienting to remote operators. Thus, a method is disclosed that switches between video processing configurations depending on a machine state of the mobile equipment. For example, a first machine state may represent that the mobile equipment is immobile, whereas a second machine state may represent that the mobile equipment is mobile. In the first machine state, the video configuration does not correct for fisheye distortion, so as to maximize the field of view in the video while the mobile equipment is immobile. In the second machine state, the video configuration does correct for fisheye distortion, so as to prevent disorientation of the remote operator while the mobile equipment is mobile.

公开(公告)号：US11875521B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US17385358

申请日：2021-07-26

申请人： TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

发明人： Vitor Guizilini ,  Rares Andrei Ambrus ,  Adrien David Gaidon ,  Igor Vasiljevic ,  Gregory Shakhnarovich

IPC分类号： G06T7/55 ,  B60R1/00 ,  G06T3/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06T7/579 ,  G06T7/292 ,  G06T7/11 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06F18/214 ,  H04N23/90

CPC分类号： G06T7/55 ,  B60R1/00 ,  B60W60/001 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G06F18/2148 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06T3/0012 ,  G06T3/0093 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06T7/292 ,  G06T7/579 ,  H04N23/90 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/20084 ,  G06T2207/30244 ,  G06T2207/30252

摘要： A method for self-supervised depth and ego-motion estimation is described. The method includes determining a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes generating a self-occlusion mask by manually segmenting self-occluded areas of images captured by the multi-camera rig of the ego vehicle. The method further includes multiplying the multi-camera photometric loss with the self-occlusion mask to form a self-occlusion masked photometric loss. The method also includes training a depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to the self-occlusion masked photometric loss. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model.

公开(公告)号：US20240010129A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

申请号：US18372456

申请日：2023-09-25

申请人： HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

发明人： Xiaolin JIA ,  Xiubo CHEN

IPC分类号： B60R1/20 ,  B60W50/00 ,  B60W50/14

CPC分类号： B60R1/20 ,  B60W50/0098 ,  B60W50/14 ,  B60W2050/146 ,  B60W2050/143 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2554/4029

摘要： This application relates to the field of intelligent vehicle technologies in the field of artificial intelligence technologies, and in particular, to a controller system. The controller system includes: an intelligent driving domain control unit; a human-machine interaction domain control unit; and a sensor interface unit that is connected to the intelligent driving domain control unit and the human-machine interaction domain control unit. The sensor interface unit is connected to a sensor, and transmit data of the sensor to the intelligent driving domain control unit and the human-machine interaction domain control unit. In this application, external cable connections can be simplified, occupation of data stream transfer resources can be reduced, and power consumption of a vehicle can be reduced.

公开(公告)号：US20230360243A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-09

申请号：US18344750

申请日：2023-06-29

申请人： TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

发明人： Vitor GUIZILINI ,  Rares Andrei AMBRUS ,  Adrien David GAIDON ,  Igor VASILJEVIC ,  Gregory SHAKHNAROVICH

IPC分类号： G06T7/55 ,  G06T7/579 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B60R1/00 ,  G06T7/292 ,  G06T3/00 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06N3/08 ,  B60W60/00

CPC分类号： G06T7/55 ,  G06T7/579 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G06F18/2148 ,  B60R1/00 ,  G06T7/292 ,  H04N23/90 ,  G06T3/0012 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06N3/08 ,  B60W60/001 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G06T3/0093 ,  G06T2207/30244 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  G06T2207/20084 ,  G06T2207/30252 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60W2420/42

摘要： A method for multi-camera monocular depth estimation using pose averaging is described. The method includes determining a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes determining a multi-camera pose consistency constraint (PCC) loss associated with the multi-camera rig of the ego vehicle. The method further includes adjusting the multi-camera photometric loss according to the multi-camera PCC loss to form a multi-camera PCC photometric loss. The method also includes training a multi-camera depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to the multi-camera PCC photometric loss. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the trained multi-camera depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model.

公开(公告)号：US11745734B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17587725

申请日：2022-01-28

申请人： HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY ,  KIA CORPORATION

发明人： Dong Hyun Ha ,  Jung Hun Choi ,  Jae Wung Jung

IPC分类号： B60W30/09 ,  B60R1/27

CPC分类号： B60W30/09 ,  B60R1/27 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/205 ,  B60R2300/30 ,  B60R2300/8093 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2510/20

摘要： A method of processing an image using a camera of a vehicle includes: a first operation of controlling a road wheel of the vehicle according to an imaging mode selected by a user from among a plurality of imaging modes, and a second operation of generating an image according to the imaging mode selected by the user by using the camera while the road wheel of the vehicle is controlled.

公开(公告)号：US20190204832A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-04

申请号：US15991769

申请日：2018-05-29

申请人： Apex Artificial Intelligence Industries, Inc.

发明人： Kenneth A. Abeloe

IPC分类号： G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G10L13/04 ,  B60R11/02 ,  B60R11/04

CPC分类号： G05D1/0088 ,  B60Q5/006 ,  B60R11/0217 ,  B60R11/04 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/103 ,  B60W30/0956 ,  G05D1/0221 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G06N3/0454 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N5/046 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G10L13/043 ,  G10L13/047 ,  G10L15/16 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L2015/223

摘要： Systems and methods for automatically self-correcting or correcting in real-time one or more neural networks after detecting a triggering event, or breaching boundary conditions are provided. Such a triggering event may indicate incorrect output signal or data being generated by the one or more neural networks. In particular, machine controllers of the invention limit the operations of neural networks to be within boundary conditions. Autonomous machines of the invention can be self-corrected after a breach of a boundary condition is detected. Autonomous land vehicles of the invention are capable of determining the timing of automatic transition to the manual control from automated driving mode. The controller of the invention filters and saves input-output data sets that fall within boundary conditions for later training of neural networks. The controllers of the invention include security architectures to prevent damages from virus attacks or system malfunctions.

公开(公告)号：US20180330526A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-15

申请号：US15591406

申请日：2017-05-10

申请人： FotoNation Limited

发明人： Peter CORCORAN

IPC分类号： G06T11/60 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/62 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G06K9/20 ,  H04N5/232 ,  B60R1/00

CPC分类号： G06T11/60 ,  B60R1/00 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/105 ,  B60R2300/8093 ,  G06K9/00805 ,  G06K9/209 ,  G06K9/6202 ,  G06T7/74 ,  G06T2207/30261 ,  H04N5/23293 ,  H04N7/181

摘要： A multi-camera vehicle vision system and method. In one embodiment a map is generated about a moving vehicle. Frames of image data are provided with a series of cameras extending along a surface of the vehicle. The image data frames are processed to identify an object of interest. An object of interest is classified among a set of object types and location of an identified object of interest is determined. Object type and location information is provided to a control unit spaced apart from the cameras via a data link. Road map data is generated to illustrate changes in position of the moving vehicle along a roadway based on data other than the image data provided by the cameras. A display of the road map data is generated with the object type and location information overlaid on the road map data to indicate object location relative to the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20180272937A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15884679

申请日：2018-01-31

申请人： TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： Hitoshi KUMON ,  Yasunobu TAKAHASHI ,  Yuto OHTSUKA

IPC分类号： B60R1/00 ,  G06T11/60 ,  H04N5/247

CPC分类号： B60R1/00 ,  B60R1/04 ,  B60R1/12 ,  B60R2001/1253 ,  B60R2300/102 ,  B60R2300/105 ,  B60R2300/207 ,  B60R2300/304 ,  B60R2300/8006 ,  B60R2300/8046 ,  G06T11/60 ,  H04N5/23238 ,  H04N5/247

摘要： A viewing device for a vehicle, comprises: a plurality of imaging apparatuses that differ in imaging range; an image generation apparatus that, on the basis of images imaged by one or a plurality of the imaging apparatuses, generates a viewing image that is a composite of: an image to a vehicle rear, an image of a vehicle structure, the image being semi-transparent, and an image of a vehicle occupant on a rear seat; and a displayer that displays the viewing image.