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6130706 Process for determining vehicle dynamics  
A process for determining at least one dynamic of a vehicle, particularly slip angle, during travel. The process involves optically monitoring, in real time and from the vehicle itself, the...
6125191 Object detecting system for vehicle  
An object detecting system for a vehicle detects an object based on output data from a distance sensor mounted on the vehicle. The distance sensor is capable of detecting a distance between the...
6100964 Method and a system for guiding an aircraft to a docking station  
For guiding an airplane to a docking station in an airport, a two-dimensional thermal IR image of a station approach zone is formed from a determined point close to said docking station, Entrance...
6094501 Determining article location and orientation using three-dimensional X and Y template edge matrices  
A method to identify the location and orientation of an article is provided, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining an image of the article with the article having a known orientation and...
6035053 Moving subject recognizing system for automotive vehicle  
A moving subject recognizing system for recognizing a subject, such as a pedestrian, moving toward a forward path of a vehicle to avoid a collision against the subject scans a field ahead the...
6023665 Aircraft identification and docking guidance systems  
6021209 Distance detection method using images  
In a distance detection method, a pair of image data representing a pattern of images is obtained by using a pair of image sensors for receiving optical images. Then, a detection target extracted...
6005958 Occupant type and position detection system  
A method and system (10) for detecting vehicle occupant type and position utilizes a single camera unit (12) positioned, for example at the driver or passenger side A-pillar, to generate image data...
5991427 Method and apparatus for detecting a lane on a road  
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for detecting a lane on a road, the latter of which includes an edge sensor (ED) for detecting edges indicative of boundaries of opposite sides...
5987174 Image processing apparatus for vehicles  
An image pickup unit (2) mounted on a vehicle shoots an image in front thereof to attain image information. An edge pixel extraction section (40202 to 40206) scans the obtained image information...
5987152 Method for measuring visibility from a moving vehicle  
In a method of measuring visibility from a vehicle in motion, images taken by an optical-electronic camera are transformed into selected image features establishing the loci of defined brightness...
5940124 Attentional maps in objective measurement of video quality degradation  
Attentional maps that reflect the subjective view of an observer to the effects of degradation in a video image are used in the objective measurement of video quality degradation. The observer...
5929785 Control device for vehicle  
A control device for a vehicle includes a position data detecting unit for detecting position data on a preceding vehicle, a picture taking unit for taking a picture in front in a traveling...
5926164 Image processor  
An infrared-spectrum image processor mounted in a vehicle assists a driver in seeing under difficult conditions, such as rain, smog or fog. The device operates, in part, on the principle that...
5922036 Lane detection sensor and navigation system employing the same  
A lane detection sensor for detecting opposite lane markers of a road, comprising: an image shooting member for shooting an image of the road ahead of a running motor vehicle; an image data memory...
5901236 Method and apparatus for measuring position by image processing  
An object whose position is to be measured is provided with a light-emitting element, the luminance of the light-emitting element is varied in two levels (lit/extinguished) with a prescribed...
5892855 Apparatus for detecting an object located ahead of a vehicle using plural cameras with different fields of view  
An onboard forward monitoring system is disclosed in which three television cameras, each supported by a steering mechanism, take picture of a road surface located forward of a vehicle at near...
5889878 Moving object image pickup apparatus  
An ITV camera picks up an image of an image pickup region including a moving object and a fixed object which serves as a reference to measure a distance. Images are fetched through the ITV camera...
5884212 Process for monitoring traffic for automatic vehicle incident detection  
A process for monitoring traffic for automatic vehicle incident detection using radar waves to detect the vehicles, their instantaneous speed and their distance. The process consists in correlating...
5862244 Satellite traffic reporting system and methods  
With a constellation of low-earth orbiting satellites, instantaneous photographs of all large cities can be made available in real-time or near real-time. Those photographs can be downloaded to...
5850254 Imaging system for a vehicle which compares a reference image which includes a mark which is fixed to said vehicle to subsequent images  
An environment recognition device formed in such a manner that an image sensor is installed so that an image sensor mounting location recognition mark falls within an image pickup area, comparator...
5835614 Image processing apparatus  
The image processing apparatus comprises: a pixel train setting unit for setting a pixel train; a moving average calculating unit for estimating the intensity of light illuminating the object as a...
5832116 Method of extracting two edges of a road by active contour propagation  
A method of extracting the contour of an object having two lateral edges, for example a road, from a digitized photographic image using an automatic active contour propagation process, comprises...
5809161 Vehicle monitoring system  
An object monitoring system includes a camera node (2) for monitoring movement of an object (18) to determine an acquisition time when an image of the object (18) is to be acquired and acquiring...
5774569 Surveillance system  
A Single optical element that also provides the structural support between optical elements, the alignment stability between optical elements, the weatherized window (environmental enclosure), and...
5761326 Method and apparatus for machine vision classification and tracking  
A method and apparatus for classification and tracking objects in three-dimensional space is described. A machine vision system acquires images from roadway scenes and processes the images by...
5757949 Warning system for vehicle  
A warning system estimates the possibility of the off-course travel of a vehicle while traveling through a curve before the vehicle enters the curve and gives the driver a warning properly. The...
5757287 Object recognition system and abnormality detection system using image processing  
An object recognition system using the image processing in which an area having a unique feature is extracted from an input image of an object, the unique image is registered in a shade template...
5751832 Headlight aiming apparatus  
An apparatus and method for aiming a vehicle headlight to a standard image pattern includes a frame movable relative to the vehicle. A housing carried on a vertically adjustable housing includes a...
5742699 Passive velocity measuring device  
The presented invention provides the velocity of a moving target from a remote location. A CCD camera receives the image of the target vehicle and records this information on CCD array. The camera...
5734337 Vehicle speed monitoring system  
A method for determining the speed of a vehicle using a camera. The method automatically compensates an apparent speed determination for inaccuracies due to the position of the camera with respect...
5706355 Method of analyzing sequences of road images, device for implementing it and its application to detecting obstacles  
A method and system of analyzing sequences of road images taken by a camera carried on board of a vehicle. A luminance signal of the road images from which contours of the road are extracted is...
5699057 Warning system for vehicle  
A warning system for a vehicle comprises a pair of stereoscopic cameras, image recognizing means for processing images, two warning devices disposed on the left and right side of a driver, the...
5687249 Method and apparatus for extracting features of moving objects  
The present invention is intended to reconstruct or acquire the shape of an object without rotating it. A TV camera with a fish-eye lens is used to conduct the image-sensing of a vehicle as a...
5684898 Method and apparatus for background determination and subtraction for a monocular vision system  
A method and apparatus for producing a background image from a plurality of images of a scene and for subtracting a background image from an input image are described. A background image is...
5680313 System and method for detecting obstacles in a road  
A system and method detects obstacles in a road being traveled by a vehicle. Edge points of the road are calculated from known road data. A series of scan lines are made of the road ahead of the...
5675661 Aircraft docking system  
An aircraft docking system is installed at a point of convenience within the dock in full view of the approaching aircraft and in view of the pilot, and has a display which is readily seen by the...
5590217 Vehicle activity measuring apparatus  
The present invention provides vehicle activity data by accurately measuring and collecting traffic information, such as vehicle speed, number of passing vehicles, types such as small size and...
5581250 Visual collision avoidance system for unmanned aerial vehicles  
A collision avoidance ability for UAV (42) during its non-VFR pre-programmed autonomous flight is achieved by using a forward-looking TV camera (20) which senses visual obstacles in direction of...
5555312 Automobile apparatus for road lane and vehicle ahead detection and ranging  
An apparatus recognizes road traffic lines and a car running ahead without regard to obstacles and noise signals. A video image recording unit on a car provides an image of the road ahead....
5555555 Apparatus which detects lines approximating an image by repeatedly narrowing an area of the image to be analyzed and increasing the resolution in the analyzed area  
Each of feature points (Xs, Ys) in X and Y orthogonal coordinate system of an image taken by a television camera is converted into a group of points (ρ, θ) of polar coordinate system. Memory...
5530771 Image tracking device and image tracking method  
An image tracking device comprising: an image taking means for taking an image in front of a vehicle and outputting an image signal; a memory for memorizing the image signal from the image taking...
5528698 Automotive occupant sensing device  
A vehicle occupant safety system includes an image sensor and processor that provides a classification of the occupancy status of the passenger seat area to determine whether an airbag should be...
5515448 Distance measuring apparatus of a target tracking type  
A distance measuring apparatus of the target tracking type which reduces the amount of data to be processed to allow high rate processing on the real time basis so that a distance to a moving...
5509082 Vehicle movement measuring apparatus  
A video camera is placed so as to overlook vehicles' attitudes at an intersection and in the vicinity of the intersection. Video signals provided by the video camera are sent to the main body of a...
5487116 Vehicle recognition apparatus  
An apparatus for recognizing contours of a preceding vehicle from road images input by the use of vehicle-mounted cameras is described. The cameras view an object in front of the vehicle having the...
5467402 Distributed image recognizing system and traffic flow instrumentation system and crime/disaster preventing system using such image recognizing system  
A plurality of image recognizing systems which are distributed and arranged and a centralized control apparatus are mutually connected via transmission lines. Each of the image recognizing...
5406501 Method and device for use in detecting moving targets  
A method and device for use in detecting moving targets in a scene represented by a sequence of mutually registered images R ( . . . , R n -1, R n , R n +1, . . . ) over time wherein differential...
5404306 Vehicular traffic monitoring system  
A vehicular traffic monitoring system incorporates an array of photosensors and a nonlinear resistive network for identifying, locating, and processing outliers in sensor images of a highway or...
5402118 Method and apparatus for measuring traffic flow  
This invention aims at providing an traffic flow measurement method and apparatus attaining the stable measurement without being affected by the change in the brightness of the external environment...
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