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Vehicle driver assist system

US9129164B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH · DE

Inventors

Juri Platonov · Winnweiler, DE
Alexey Pryakhin · Munich, DE
Peter Kunath · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 3, 2010
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 20, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V20/582
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A driver assist system is provided that generates a video signal representing a vehicle environment outside a vehicle. At least one feature is extracted from the video signal. A reference is selected from a plurality of reference features stored as location attributes in a map database. The extracted feature is compared to at least one reference feature. An object in the vehicle environment is identified based on the comparison of the extracted feature and the reference feature. An indication is provided to a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the identified object. In one example, the system includes a video capturing device, an indicating device, a vehicle-based processing resource and access to a map database server. Processing tasks may be distributed among the vehicle-based processing resource and an external processing resource.

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