Brake Light Detection

Patent №

US 10,248,874

Granted

2019-04-02

Filed 2016

Owner

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15359158

Systems, methods, and devices for detecting brake lights are disclosed herein. A system includes a mode component, a vehicle region component, and a classification component. The mode component is configured to select a night mode or day mode based on a pixel brightness in an image frame. The vehicle region component is configured to detect a region corresponding to a vehicle based on data from a range sensor when in a night mode or based on camera image data when in the day mode. The classification component is configured to classify a brake light of the vehicle as on or off based on image data in the region corresponding to the vehicle.

VisionG06V 10/82G06T 7/90G06V 10/764G06V 20/584G06T 2207/10004G06T 2207/10016G06T 2207/10024G06T 2207/10028+2 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning0.23
AI hardware0.06
Knowledge representation0.02
Natural language0.01
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

assignment · 404040846

Assignors

MOOSAEI, MARYAM, HOTSON, GUY, MAHMOUDIEH, PARSA, NARIYAMBUT MURALI, VIDYA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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