IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTANCE DETERMINATION USING AN IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM
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Abstract
A vehicle-based image acquisition system having an image sensor that has a characteristic curve assembled from linear segments. The system includes an arrangement for determining the distance of luminous objects imaged by the image sensor.
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8. A vehicle-based image acquisition system, comprising:
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an image sensor having a characteristic curve assembled from linear segments; and a device adapted to determine a distance of luminous objects imaged by the image sensor. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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10. A method for determining the distance between an image acquisition system encompassing an image sensor and a luminous object moving relative to the image acquisition system, the method comprising:
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generating, using the image sensor, an image of surroundings of the image sensor encompassing a luminous object; selecting a luminous object of interest from the image generated by the image sensor; for the selected object, sensing a tailing of the image of the luminous object, which tailing occurs as a consequence of control properties of the image sensor and a relative velocity between the image sensor and the luminous object; and associating a magnitude of the tailing with a distance value. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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