IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC VEHICULAR EXTERIOR LIGHTING CONTROL

Patent №

US 7,565,006

Granted

2009-07-21

Filed 2003

Owner

GENTEX CORPORATION

Lab

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AI components

vision · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10645801

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The present invention relates to various apparatus, algorithms and methods for acquiring and processing images of a scene. Details of various aspects of the associated images are identified and may be utilized to generate various vehicular equipment control signals.

Vision Planning Evolutionary computation AI hardwareB60Q 1/18B60Q 1/085B60Q 1/143G06V 20/584H05B 47/165H05B 47/17B60Q 2300/052B60Q 2300/054+15 more

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Vision1.00

Planning0.98

AI hardware0.60

Evolutionary computation0.56

Knowledge representation0.05

Machine learning0.02

Natural language0.01

Speech0.00

Ownership

GENTEX CORPORATION

assignment · 147920165

Assignors

STAM, JOSEPH S., MART, GREGORY A., BUSH, GREGORY S., ROBERTS, JOHN K., PIERCE, MARK W., BECHTEL, JON H., WALSTRA, ERIC J., RYCENGA, BROCK R., BERENDS, KEITH H.

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