Image processing system to control vehicle headlamps or other vehicle equipment
First Claim
1. An imaging system for a vehicle, comprising:
- at least two image sensor arrays, each said image array sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each said pixel operable to generate a signal indicative of the amount of light received on said pixel; and
a control circuit for processing at least one image, wherein said control circuit is in communication with said at least two image sensor arrays via a bus.
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Abstract
An imaging system of the invention includes an image array sensor including a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels generate a signal indicative of the amount of light received on the pixel. The imaging system further includes an analog to digital converter for quantizing the signals from the pixels into a digital value. The system further includes a memory including a plurality of allocated storage locations for storing the digital values from the analog to digital converter. The number of allocated storage locations in the memory is less than the number of pixels in the image array sensor. According to another embodiment, an imaging device includes an image sensor having a plurality pixels arranged in an array; and a multi-layer interference filter disposed over said pixel array, said multi-layer interference filter being patterned so as to provide filters of different colors to neighboring pixels or groups of pixels.
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30 Claims
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1. An imaging system for a vehicle, comprising:
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at least two image sensor arrays, each said image array sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each said pixel operable to generate a signal indicative of the amount of light received on said pixel; and
a control circuit for processing at least one image, wherein said control circuit is in communication with said at least two image sensor arrays via a bus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An imaging system for a vehicle, comprising:
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an image array sensor including a plurality of pixels, each said pixel operable to generate a signal indicative of the amount of light received on the pixel; and
a control circuit for processing at least one image of a scene obtained from said image array sensor for controlling at least one vehicle apparatus in response to objects detected in the processed scene, wherein said control circuit generates a segment list identifying segments of adjacent ones of said pixels that generate a signal having a grayscale value above a threshold as the signals are received from said pixels. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An imaging system for a vehicle, comprising:
- an image array sensor;
an optical system configured to image the scene forward of the controlled vehicle onto said image array sensor; and
a control circuit for processing the image of the scene obtained from said image array sensor to control the vehicle headlamps in response to objects detected in the processed scene, said control circuit is in communication with said image array sensor via a bus. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
- an image array sensor;
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