AUTOMATIC VEHICLE EQUIPMENT MONITORING, WARNING, AND CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

An automatic vehicle equipment control system (106) and methods thereof are provided, the system (106) 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 (3) of an imager pixel array in optical communication with substantially one filter, and a lens (1, 411), wherein the imager is configured to capture a non-saturated image of nearby oncoming headlamps (116) and at least one of a diffuse lane marking and a distant tail lamp (111) in one image frame of the high dynamic range images, and the system (106) configured to detect at least one of said highway markings and said tail lamps (111), and quantify light from the oncoming headlamp (116) from data in the one image frame.