Automatic vehicle equipment monitoring, warning, and control system
First Claim
1. An automatic vehicle equipment control system comprising:
- at least one imager configured to acquire a continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, and said at least one imager comprising a pixel array;
a processor in communication with said at least one imager, and configured to process said continuous sequence of said high dynamic range images;
a color spectral filter array in optical communication with said at least one imager, said color spectral filter array comprising a plurality of color filters, at least a portion of which are different colors, and pixels of said pixel array being in optical communication with substantially one said spectral color filter; and
a lens in optical communication with said at least one imager and said color spectral filter array;
wherein said imager is configured to capture a non-saturated image of nearby oncoming headlamps and at least one of a diffuse lane marking and a distant tail lamp in one image frame of said continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, and the automatic vehicle equipment control system configured to detect and classify at least one headlamp, and detect and classify at least one of said lane markings and said tail lamps in the same image frame as said at least one headlamp.
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Abstract
An automatic vehicle equipment control system and methods thereof are provided, the system includes at least one imager configured to acquire a continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, a processor, a color spectral filter array including a plurality of color filters, at least a portion of which are different colors, and pixels of an imager pixel array being in optical communication with substantially one spectral color filter, and a lens, wherein the imager is configured to capture a non-saturated image of nearby oncoming headlamps and at least one of a diffuse lane marking and a distant tail lamp in one image frame of the continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, and the system configured to detect at least one of said highway markings and said tail lamps, and quantify light from the oncoming headlamp from data in the one image frame.
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1. An automatic vehicle equipment control system comprising:
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at least one imager configured to acquire a continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, and said at least one imager comprising a pixel array; a processor in communication with said at least one imager, and configured to process said continuous sequence of said high dynamic range images; a color spectral filter array in optical communication with said at least one imager, said color spectral filter array comprising a plurality of color filters, at least a portion of which are different colors, and pixels of said pixel array being in optical communication with substantially one said spectral color filter; and a lens in optical communication with said at least one imager and said color spectral filter array; wherein said imager is configured to capture a non-saturated image of nearby oncoming headlamps and at least one of a diffuse lane marking and a distant tail lamp in one image frame of said continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, and the automatic vehicle equipment control system configured to detect and classify at least one headlamp, and detect and classify at least one of said lane markings and said tail lamps in the same image frame as said at least one headlamp. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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