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Vehicle vision system with traffic monitoring and alert

  • US 10,032,369 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2016
  • Issued: 07/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vision and alert system of a vehicle, said vision and alert system comprising:

  • a plurality of cameras configured to be disposed at a vehicle equipped with said vision and alert system so as to have respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle;

    wherein, with said cameras disposed at the equipped vehicle, said plurality of cameras includes a forward camera having a field of view forward of the equipped vehicle;

    an image processor operable to process image data captured by said cameras;

    wherein said vision and alert system determines a driving pattern of the equipped vehicle via at least one of (a) image processing of image data captured by at least said forward viewing camera when said cameras are disposed at the equipped vehicle and (b) one or more sensors of the vehicle sensing vehicle acceleration, vehicle speed, vehicle pitch, vehicle yaw and/or vehicle roll;

    wherein, responsive to the determined driving pattern of the equipped vehicle, said vision and alert system determines a traffic jam index representative of a degree of traffic on the road being traveled by the equipped vehicle; and

    wherein, responsive to the determined traffic jam index being greater than a threshold level of traffic, said vision and alert system transmits a traffic alert communication to a remote system, and wherein the traffic alert communication is indicative of the determined traffic jam index.

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