DUAL NODE COMPOSITE IMAGE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

摘要

When employing a multi-node computing architecture for commercial articulated vehicles to generate a composite surround view of the vehicle, each processing node is associated with a vehicle segment. Each node has its own processor, memory and sensors. A master-slave relationship exists in the architecture. The segment processors collect, format, manage and package their local information. Communication between nodes is controlled by the master node, which can limit, adjust, subsample and alter the information and information flow from the slave nodes. The slave nodes can be freely recombined, using a pre-established communication standard or a format agreed upon at combination time.

主权项

1. A system that facilitates generating a composite image using a multi-node computer architecture for an articulated vehicle, comprising:
a first set of one or more cameras that capture images of an area surrounding a first portion of the articulated vehicle; a first processing node that receives captured image data from the first set of one or more cameras; a second set of one or more cameras that capture images of an area surrounding a second portion of the articulated vehicle; a second processing node that receives captured image data from the second set of one or more cameras and transmits the captured image data to the first processing node; wherein the first processing node is configured to generate a composite surround view image of the articulated vehicle from the captured image data received from the first and second sets of one or more cameras.