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Image detection system for a car with adjustment for wiper image

US5177606A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 27, 1991
Grant dateJan 5, 1993
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Expiry dateSep 27, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB60S1/08
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image detection system for a car arranged such that only when the drive angle of a wiper of the car resides within a predetermined image pickup angle range or a predetermined image pickup angle range corrected according to the pan angle of a TV camera unit, a change-over switch is controlled to change over to the side of an image storage from which static image data are provided as outputs. Alternatively, it can be arranged such that a masking range the wiper crosses in all of the scanning lines, of an image in front of the wiper, perpendicular to the moving direction of the wiper is determined from a drive angle of the wiper and only the image of the scanning lines for the wiper is masked and substituted by blank data or static update data.

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