CHROMATIC ABERRATION COMPENSATION FOR VEHICLE CAMERAS

• US 20140368654A1
• Filed: 06/13/2014
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Magna Electronics Incorporated (Magna International Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Magna Electronics Incorporated (Magna International Incorporated)
• Inventors: Wierich, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/303,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20140368654A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The camera includes a lens and a pixelated imaging array having a plurality of photosensing elements. The camera is operable to sense color via color filters at respective photosensing elements. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera. The vision system is operable to determine an aberration of colors in the captured image data and to correct the aberration of colors. The vision system determines the aberration based on parameters of the lens, and the vision system may corrects the aberration of colors by scaling the color channels according to a location of the respective pixels and the respective parameters of the lens for that location.

Claims

1. A vision system of a vehicle, said vision system comprising:

a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle;

wherein said camera comprises a lens and a two dimensional pixelated imaging array having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in rows and columns of photosensing elements;

wherein said camera is operable to sense color via color filtering at photosensing elements of said pixelated imaging array;

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

wherein said vision system is operable to determine color aberration in the captured images;

wherein said vision system determines color aberration based at least in part on parameters of portions of said lens that correlate to respective pixel portions of said imaging array; and

wherein, responsive at least in part to processing of image data by said image processor, said vision system at least in part corrects the color aberration via correlation of respective pixels of said imaging array to parameters of respective portions of said lens focusing light at those pixels.

2. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said image processor at least in part corrects the color aberration by scaling color channels according to a location of a respective pixel and a respective parameter of said lens at that location.

3. The vision system of claim 2, wherein said color channels comprise at least a red color channel, a green color channel and a blue color channel.

4. The vision system of claim 2, wherein said vision system at least in part corrects the color aberration by scaling color channels of said camera as a function of a distance of a respective pixel from a center of said imaging array.

5. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said vision system determines a displacement distance of the color components of the images.

6. The vision system of claim 5, wherein the displacement distance is determined responsive to the parameters of said lens.

7. The vision system of claim 6, wherein said vision system adjusts captured image data in accordance with the determined displacement distance to correct the aberration of colors.

8. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said vision system determines color aberration based at least in part on distances of pixels of said imaging array from a center pixel that corresponds with a central axis of said lens.

9. The vision system of claim 8, wherein said parameters of said lens include at least a curvature of said lens.

10. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said lens comprises a single lens optic that focuses light at pixels of said imaging array.

11. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said image processor at least in part corrects the color aberration transversal/lateral chromatic aberration.

12. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said camera comprises a backup camera disposed at a rear portion of the vehicle and having a field of view rearward of the vehicle.

13. The vision system of claim 1, wherein said camera is part of a multi-camera surround vision system of the vehicle having a plurality of cameras, each having a lens and respective exterior field of view.

14. A vision system of a vehicle, said vision system comprising:

a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and having a field of view exterior and rearward of the vehicle;

wherein said camera comprises a lens and a two dimensional pixelated imaging array having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in rows and columns of photosensing elements;

wherein said lens comprises a single lens optic that focuses light at pixels of said imaging array;

wherein said camera is operable to sense color via color filtering at photosensing elements of said pixelated imaging array;

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

wherein, responsive to image processing of captured image data, said image processor is operable to determine objects present in the field of view of said camera;

wherein said vision system is operable to determine color aberration in the captured images;

wherein said vision system determines color aberration based at least in part on parameters of portions of said lens that correlate to respective pixel portions of said imaging array; and

wherein, responsive at least in part to processing of image data by said image processor, said vision system at least in part corrects the color aberration via correlation of respective pixels of said imaging array to parameters of respective portions of said lens focusing light at those pixels.

15. The vision system of claim 14, wherein said image processor at least in part corrects the color aberration by scaling color channels according to a location of a respective pixel and a respective parameter of said lens at that location.

16. The vision system of claim 14, wherein said vision system determines a displacement distance of the color components of the images, and wherein the displacement distance is determined responsive to the parameters of said lens, and wherein said vision system adjusts captured image data in accordance with the determined displacement distance to correct the aberration of colors.

17. The vision system of claim 14, wherein said vision system determines color aberration based at least in part on distances of pixels of said imaging array from a center pixel that corresponds with a central axis of said lens.

18. The vision system of claim 14, wherein said parameters of said lens include at least a curvature of said lens.

19. A vision system of a vehicle, said vision system comprising:

a plurality of cameras disposed at a vehicle, each having a respective field of view exterior of the vehicle;

wherein each of said cameras comprises a lens and a two dimensional pixelated imaging array having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in rows and columns of photosensing elements;

wherein said cameras are operable to sense color via color filtering at photosensing elements of said pixelated imaging arrays;

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

wherein said vision system is operable to determine color aberration in the captured images;

wherein said vision system determines color aberration based at least in part on parameters of portions of said lenses that correlate to respective pixel portions of the imaging arrays of the respective camera;

wherein, responsive at least in part to processing of image data by said image processor, said vision system at least in part corrects the color aberration via correlation of respective pixels of said imaging arrays to parameters of respective portions of the lens focusing light at those pixels; and

wherein said vision system determines color aberration based at least in part on distances of pixels of said imaging array from a center pixel that corresponds with a central axis of said lens.

20. The vision system of claim 19, wherein said image processor at least in part corrects the color aberration by scaling color channels according to a location of a respective pixel and a respective parameter of said lens at that location, and wherein said vision system at least in part corrects the color aberration by scaling color channels of said camera as a function of a distance of a respective pixel from a center of said imaging array.