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United States Patent | 7,769,513 |
Breed , et al. | August 3, 2010 |
Arrangement and method for obtaining information about objects in an environment in or around a vehicle includes one or more optical imagers for obtaining images of the environment and a processor coupled to the imager(s) for obtaining information about an object in one or more images obtained by the imager(s). The processor is arranged to process the obtained images to determine edges of objects in the images and input data about the edges into a trained pattern recognition algorithm which has been trained to provide information about the object as output. The pattern recognition algorithm may include a neural network or variation thereof. The information about the object may be used to control a vehicular component such as an airbag or light filter.
Inventors: | Breed; David S. (Miami Beach, FL), Chen; Tie-Qi (Windsor, CA) |
Assignee: |
Automotive Technologies International, Inc.
(Denville,
NJ)
|
Appl. No.: | 11/841,056 |
Filed: | August 20, 2007 |
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Current U.S. Class: | 701/45 ; 382/151; 382/154; 382/181 |
Current International Class: | G06K 9/00 (20060101) |
Field of Search: | 701/45 385/104,181 706/20 382/104,181,199,203,154,151,224 |
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