GENTEX CORPORATION

A device and a corresponding system are disclosed. The device may comprise a display. Additionally, the device and/or system may be operable to detect stale images. Further, the stale images may be detected in devices and/or systems where incoming images—such as from an imager—are received at a frame rate different than that of the display. A controller may detect the stale images by assigning hash values to images of each frame displayed by the display; storing novel hash values in a memory; and maintaining a counter. The counter may be maintained such that assigning a repeat hash value increments the counter by one and assigning novel hash values resets the counter to zero. Further, the stale images may be determined based, at least in part, on the counter value.

An imaging and display system is provided for a vehicle having: a video display disposed in an interior of the vehicle; a visible light video camera configured to capture a visible light video stream of an exterior scene in a visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum; a long-range IR video camera configured to capture an IR video stream of the exterior scene in an IR region of the electromagnetic spectrum; and a processing circuit for receiving the visible light video stream and the IR video stream for analyzing the IR video stream to detect an object with reduced visibility in the visible light video stream, and for modifying the visible light video stream by highlighting a region where the detected object should be located in the visible light video stream, the processing circuit configured to supply the modified visible light video stream to the video display for display thereon.

A video conferencing system for a vehicle includes a display device disposed in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, the display device comprising a screen, a first imager configured to capture a first image data corresponding to a field of view of a passenger compartment of the vehicle, at least one microphone configured to collect audio data from within the passenger compartment, and a controller. The controller is configured detect a display prompt within the image data corresponding to a portion of the image data received from the first imager, detect an audio prompt within a predetermined zone of the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and selectively crop the first image data according to the portion of the image data corresponding with the display prompt in response to determining a correlation between the portion of the image data and the zone of the passenger department associated with the audio prompt.

A monitoring system for a vehicle includes at least one imaging device configured to capture a first image type and a second image type in a sequence. A first illumination source is configured to emit a flood illumination captured by the at least one imaging device in the first image type. A second illumination source is configured to emit a structured light illumination captured by the at least one imaging device in the second image type. At least one processor is configured to extract a 2-dimensional (“2D”) joint coordinate representation of a vehicle occupant from the first image type, measure a depth of at least a portion of the 2D joint coordinate representation with the second image type, extrapolate a 3-dimensional (“3D”) joint coordinate representation of the vehicle occupant, and estimate, based on the 3D joint coordinate representation, a location of at least one joint that is obscured.

A method for processing streamed video from an imager that provides raw image data including input image frames. The method including: a) selecting segment data for two segments for each row of the input image frames using parameters for a desired image transformation; b) selecting step data containing information on how far to move in an input image frame before generating an output pixel and the location for the output pixel; c) receiving the input image frames from the imager in a streaming fashion, the image processor buffering rows of one of the input image frames; d) processing each of the buffered rows of one of the input image frames using the segment data and step data to map and modify the input pixels, interpolating to create one of the output image frames having output pixels; and e) repeating steps a)-d) for each row of each input image frame.

A system includes an illumination source associated with a vehicle. The illumination source is configured to emit a structured light pattern onto a portion of at least one of a trailer towed by the vehicle and, if present, a load hauled by the trailer. A camera is associated with the vehicle and configured to capture the structured light pattern and generate one or more images of a scene. A controller is communicatively connected to the camera and configured to receive the one or more images from the camera, and create one or more depth map of the scene based, at least in part, on the one or more images. The controller is further configured to determine at least one of a position and an orientation of at least one of the trailer and the load, and detect the presence of a potentially hazardous condition related to towing the trailer.

A device and a corresponding system are disclosed. The device may comprise a display. Additionally, the device and/or system may be operable to detect stale images. Further, the stale images may be detected in devices and/or systems where incoming images—such as from an imager—are received at a frame rate different than that of the display. A controller may detect the stale images by assigning hash values to images of each frame displayed by the display; storing novel hash values in a memory; and maintaining a counter. The counter may be maintained such that assigning a repeat hash value increments the counter by one and assigning novel hash values resets the counter to zero. Further, the stale images may be determined based, at least in part, on the counter value.

A device and a corresponding system are disclosed. The device may comprise a display. Additionally, the device and/or system may be operable to detect stale images. Further, the stale images may be detected in devices and/or systems where incoming images—such as from an imager—are received at a frame rate different than that of the display. A controller may detect the stale images by assigning hash values to images of each frame displayed by the display; storing novel hash values in a memory; and maintaining a counter. The counter may be maintained such that assigning a repeat hash value increments the counter by one and assigning novel hash values resets the counter to zero. Further, the stale images may be determined based, at least in part, on the counter value.

An illumination system for monitoring and illuminating an operating region includes at least one light assembly including at least one illumination source configured to selectively direct a light emission in a portion of the operating region. At least one imager is configured to capture image data in a field of view in the operating region. A controller is in communication with the light assembly and the imager. The controller is configured to process image data captured in the field of view and identify a plurality of objects detected in the image data based on an object library. Track a location of each of the plurality of objects and store the location of each of the objects.

A video conferencing system for a vehicle includes a display device disposed in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, the display device comprising a screen, a first imager configured to capture a first image data corresponding to a field of view of a passenger compartment of the vehicle, at least one microphone configured to collect audio data from within the passenger compartment, and a controller. The controller is configured detect a display prompt within the image data corresponding to a portion of the image data received from the first imager, detect an audio prompt within a predetermined zone of the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and selectively crop the first image data according to the portion of the image data corresponding with the display prompt in response to determining a correlation between the portion of the image data and the zone of the passenger department associated with the audio prompt.