Systems And Arrangements For Providing Situational Awareness To An Operator Of A Vehicle
First Claim
1. A method for providing situational awareness comprising:
- acquiring digitized video proximate to a vehicle;
utilizing pixel differentiation to locate at least one area of interest in at least one frame of the digitized video;
determining attribute information of the at least one area of interest; and
determining if the attribute information is sufficient enough to set an alarm condition.
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Abstract
Vehicular situational awareness systems, method and arrangements are disclosed herein. In one embodiment digitized video can be acquired by a camera on a vehicle, and utilizing pixel differentiation at least one area of interest in the digitized video can be identified. The area of interest could be, for example, a group of pixels that represent another vehicle, a sign etc. Attribute information for the area of interest, such as size, movement etc of an object, can be acquired and then it can be determined if the attribute information is significant enough or important enough to set an alarm condition and notify the driver.
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28 Claims
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1. A method for providing situational awareness comprising:
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acquiring digitized video proximate to a vehicle; utilizing pixel differentiation to locate at least one area of interest in at least one frame of the digitized video; determining attribute information of the at least one area of interest; and determining if the attribute information is sufficient enough to set an alarm condition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A situational awareness system comprising:
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a camera; a pixel differentiation module to identify an area of interest in a video frame having pixel differentiation; a pixel group tracking module to track movement of the area of interest in successive video frames and to acquire situational awareness information; and an alarm system to determine if the situational awareness information meets a usefulness threshold and when the situational awareness information meets the usefulness threshold to create situational awareness information. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
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acquire digitized video; utilize pixel differentiation to locate at least one area of interest in at least one frame of the digitized video; determine attribute information of the at least one area of interest; and determine if the attribute information warrants an alarm condition. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A method for providing situational awareness comprising:
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acquiring digitized video representing at least one attribute of an object; utilizing a point at infinity to determine if the at least one attribute is moving in relation to the earth; determining if at least a portion of the object attribute represents a threat; and triggering an alarm if the at least a portion of the object presents a threat. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28)
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26. The method of 21, wherein the threat is a collision threat.
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