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An autonomous vehicle with improved visual detection ability

A technology of autonomous vehicles and detection modules, which is applied in the direction of vehicle components, autonomous decision-making process, vehicle position/route/height control, etc., to achieve a good trajectory control mechanism, improve road safety, and ensure pedestrian safety.

Active Publication Date: 2018-12-21
AIMOTIVE KFT
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[0009] However, the prior art lacks techniques to improve the image quality of on-board cameras as the vehicle moves

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[0053] The present disclosure provides an autonomous vehicle including a vehicle camera alignment system, a method, and a software program product for improving the visual detection capabilities of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle includes at least one variable pitch camera. A variable-pitch camera has a variable and movable non-zero pitch that is adjustable in the direction of motion of the ego vehicle. varying the pitch of the variable-pitch camera to maximize the image sharpness and / or resolution of images captured by the variable-pitch camera, thereby ensuring that accurate data is used to reconstruct objects and / or associated with the path of the ego vehicle environment. More accurate image reconstruction data is used to control the movement of the autonomous vehicle.

[0054] figure 1 Embodiment 10 of an autonomous vehicle 100 is shown. According to the present invention, the autonomous vehicle 100 includes a plurality of variable-tilt cameras 110 , 111...

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The invention provides an autonomous vehicle capable of driving independently through a path of intense traffic and transporting objects or people, even on rough surfaces, whilst ensuring safety of the vehicle and general road safety. The autonomous vehicle includes at least one variable pitch camera for producing images to be used for a computer vision to control the autonomous vehicle. The invention facilitates changing the pitch of the variable pitch camera to maximise camera image clarity and / or resolution as the autonomous vehicle moves. The images can be used for lane detection, pedestrian detection, three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of an environment and / or pothole detection. With the invention, at least one image from the variable pitch camera is used in controlling the movement and / or the trajectory of the autonomous vehicle.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to an autonomous (autonomous, self-driving) vehicle with a camera, and more particularly, to an autonomous car with a camera for improving the visual detection capabilities of the autonomous car. Background technique [0002] Autonomous vehicles with the ability to operate with independent controls requiring minimal human intervention can be used to transport people and objects. Typically, some autonomous vehicles require initial input from an operator, while some other designs of autonomous vehicles are under constant operator control. Some autonomous vehicles can be operated entirely remotely. For example, automatic parking in a normal human-driven car such as a Tesla is an example of an autonomous vehicle in operation. [0003] Furthermore, autonomous vehicles need to operate under dynamically changing environmental conditions. For example, an autonomous vehicle may need to trace a path over varying stretches of roa...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G05D1/02H04N23/90
CPCG05D1/0246H04N5/77G06V20/58G05D1/0278B60W2554/00B60W2420/403B60W2552/53B60W2552/35B60W2554/4029B60W60/001B60W30/0956B60W30/12B60W2720/24G08G1/16
Inventor 盖尔盖伊·德布赖采尼
Owner AIMOTIVE KFT
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