Method to determine distance of an object from an automated vehicle with a monocular device

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PATENT NO 9862318
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14953848

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A method of determining the distance of an object from an automated vehicle based on images taken by a monocular image acquiring device. The object is recognized with an object-class by means of an image processing system. Respective position data are determined from the images using a pinhole camera model based on the object-class. Position data indicating in world coordinates the position of a reference point of the object with respect to the plane of the road is used with a scaling factor of the pinhole camera model estimated by means of a Bayes estimator using the position data as observations and under the assumption that the reference point of the object is located on the plane of the road with a predefined probability. The distance of the object from the automated vehicle is calculated from the estimated scaling factor using the pinhole camera model.

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  • DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Lessmann, Stephanie Wuppertal, DE 19 91
Meuter, Mirko Erkath, DE 32 172
Mueller, Dennis Moers, DE 12 89

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