Vehicular vision system
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Abstract
A vehicular vision system comprises a photosensor array comprising a plurality of photosensor elements arranged in a predefined arrangement. The photosensor array has a field of view forward of the vehicle that is generally in line with the vehicle'"'"'s primary direction of forward travel. The photosensor array captures an image of at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle within its forward field of view. A control is responsive to an output of the photosensor array. Preferably, the control analyzes particular groupings of photosensor elements of the photosensor array while ignoring other particular groupings of photosensor elements of the photosensor array so as to determine at least one of presence, size, shape, contour and motion of the at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle.
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144 Claims
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1-92. -92. (canceled)
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93. A vehicular vision system, said system comprising:
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a photosensor array comprising a plurality of photosensor elements arranged in a predefined arrangement;
said photosensor array having a field of view forward of the vehicle that is generally in line with the vehicle'"'"'s primary direction of forward travel;
said photosensor array capturing an image of at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle within said forward field of view;
a control responsive to an output of said photosensor array; and
said control analyzing particular groupings of photosensor elements of said photosensor array while ignoring other particular groupings of photosensor elements of said photosensor array so as to determine at least one of presence, size, shape, contour and motion of said at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120)
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121. A vehicular vision system, said system comprising:
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a photosensor array comprising a plurality of photosensor elements arranged in a predefined arrangement;
said photosensor array having a field of view forward of the vehicle that is generally in line with the vehicle'"'"'s primary direction of forward travel;
said photosensor array capturing an image of at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle within said forward field of view;
a control responsive to an output of said photosensor array;
said control analyzing particular groupings of photosensor elements of said photosensor array while ignoring other particular groupings of photosensor elements of said photosensor array so as to determine at least one of presence, size, shape, contour and motion of said at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle;
wherein said photosensor array comprises a CMOS photosensor array; and
wherein an interior cabin of the vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly and wherein said photosensor array is disposed at or adjacent said interior rearview mirror assembly. - View Dependent Claims (122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134)
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135. A vehicular vision system, said system comprising:
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a photosensor array comprising a plurality of photosensor elements arranged in a predefined arrangement;
said photosensor array having a field of view forward of the vehicle that is generally in line with the vehicle'"'"'s primary direction of forward travel;
said photosensor array capturing an image of at least one item of interest exterior the vehicle within said forward field of view;
a control responsive to an output of said photosensor array;
wherein said photosensor array comprises a CMOS photosensor array;
wherein said photosensor array is located within an interior cabin of the vehicle and has a forward field of view through a windshield of the vehicle; and
wherein said control compares image data captured by said photosensor array with stored data. - View Dependent Claims (136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144)
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