发明名称 |
Vehicle maneuvering aids |
摘要 |
A vehicle 1 towing a trailer 4 is fitted with three video cameras 5, 6, 7 fitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display 11. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit 10, is also presented to the driver on the display 11 as guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unit 10 is also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view. |
申请公布号 |
US9156496(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.10.13 |
申请号 |
US201213448529 |
申请日期 |
2012.04.17 |
申请人 |
Ford Global Technologies, LLC |
发明人 |
Greenwood Jeremy John;Nicholls Stephen;Crawford Andrew Stephen Bell |
分类号 |
H04N7/18;B62D13/06;B60R1/00;B62D15/02;G01B11/27;G06T7/00;G06T7/20;G08G1/16 |
主分类号 |
H04N7/18 |
代理机构 |
Brooks Kushman P.C. |
代理人 |
Coppiellie Raymond L.;Brooks Kushman P.C. |
主权项 |
1. A method of predicting a path of a trailer attached to a vehicle comprising the steps of:
measuring a vehicle steering angle by a computing unit of a vehicle; obtaining first and second views by an image processor of the vehicle, from at least two rearward-looking video cameras mounted on the vehicle; determining a trailer view by the image processor, from the first and second camera views; displaying the trailer view by the image processor on a screen visible to a driver; determining a hitch angle, θt, by the computing unit and a parameter store of the vehicle, between the vehicle and trailer and using the trailer view; calculating a predicted path of the trailer by the computing unit, from the hitch angle and steering angle; displaying the predicted trailer path by the image processor, as an overlaid track on the trailer view; tracking a marker associated with the trailer by the image processor, across a field of view of at least one of the rearward-looking video cameras; and converting a vertical displacement of the marker by the computing unit in the field of view to an angular displacement to determine a pitch angle. |
地址 |
Dearborn MI US |