The present invention relates generally to a system for a vehicle and, more particularly, to a vehicle system that utilizes one or more sensors at a vehicle to determine the location of the vehicle and/or an action at the vehicle.
Use of sensors, such as imaging sensors, in vehicle systems is common and known. Examples of such known systems are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,949,331; 5,670,935 and/or 5,550,677, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The present invention provides a parking assist system and/or an alert system for a vehicle that may utilize one or more cameras (preferably one or more CMOS cameras) to capture image data representative of images exterior of the vehicle. The system may comprise a parking assist function that, responsive to a determination of a current geographical location of the vehicle, provides information pertaining to nearby parking lots and available parking spaces to the driver of the vehicle. The system may comprise a security function or alert function that, responsive to a determination of a potential criminal act or break in at the vehicle, generates an alert communication to other nearby vehicles and/or to the vehicle owner and/or to the local authorities, whereby the alarm systems and/or cameras of the nearby vehicles may be actuated in response to receipt of the alert communication.
These and other objects, advantages, purposes and features of the present invention will become apparent upon review of the following specification in conjunction with the drawings.
A vehicle vision system and/or driver assist system and/or object detection system and/or alert system operates to capture images exterior of the vehicle and may process the captured image data to display images and to detect objects at or near the vehicle and in the predicted path of the vehicle, such as to assist a driver of the vehicle in maneuvering the vehicle in a rearward direction. The vision system includes an image processor or image processing system that is operable to receive image data from one or more cameras and provide an output to a display device for displaying images representative of the captured image data. Optionally, the vision system may provide a top down or bird's eye or surround view display and may provide a displayed image that is representative of the subject vehicle, and optionally with the displayed image being customized to at least partially correspond to the actual subject vehicle.
Referring now to the drawings and the illustrative embodiments depicted therein, a vehicle 10 includes an imaging system or vision system 12 that includes at least one exterior facing imaging sensor or camera, such as a rearward facing imaging sensor or camera 14a (and the system may optionally include multiple exterior facing imaging sensors or cameras, such as a forwardly facing camera 14b at the front (or at the windshield) of the vehicle, and a sidewardly/rearwardly facing camera 14c, 14d at respective sides of the vehicle), which captures images exterior of the vehicle, with the camera having a lens for focusing images at or onto an imaging array or imaging plane or imager of the camera (
Navigation/Networked Smart Park:
The present invention provides a parking assist system or smart park system that is operable to assist the driver of a vehicle equipped with the parking assist system to find a parking space at or near the current location of the equipped vehicle. Such a system may empower or enable the vehicle system (which preferably includes a display to display the various found parking space locations to the driver) to assist the driver in finding an urban parking space.
Typically, a driver must circle through a city until he or she is lucky enough to find an available parking spot. This often can be very time consuming and frustrating to the driver of the vehicle. The system of the present invention avoids such frustration by, such as responsive to a user input (such as a button or switch or voice command or the like), displaying or otherwise conveying to the driver where a nearby parking space or spaces may be located.
The parking assist system of the present invention uses sensors and a networked database to make this process more efficient. For example, the system may, with the inclusion of a navigation system, such as a GPS or the like (such as an output of a navigation system that is indicative of the current location of the vehicle), the parking assist system can record the parking space or lot locations that were previously used by the driver or vehicle or system (such as where the vehicle was parked a previous time or several times that the parking assist system was used or actuated). Optionally, with the inclusion of sensor(s), such as a rear or front-facing camera, that are operable to detect other parked vehicles, the system can record the frequency of parked cars in an area, and thus may determine or estimate the likelihood of finding an empty space or may provide a hierarchy of potential parking spaces in an order of likely availability.
Optionally, with the inclusion of a wireless network, such as 802.11p network or the like, a database within the vehicle or at a remote server can record any other nearby vehicles that have recently used the parking assist system (such as other vehicles similarly equipped with the parking assist system of the present invention or the like) and share this to the parking assist system of the subject vehicle and other similar parking assist systems. If Internet access is available, available parking spaces or lots can be cross referenced with all other data (and the location of available spaces may be communicated to the driver of the vehicle to further enhance the driver's ability to readily find an available parking space).
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Optionally, and such as shown in
Optionally, for parking lots that are full, the parking assist system may receive a communication to that effect and may remove that parking lot or structure from the display or display that parking lot or structure as unavailable. It is envisioned that, in areas that use automated parking meters, that information provided by such systems may be received by the parking assist system of the present invention, and currently available street side parking spaces may also be displayed to the driver of the equipped vehicle (optionally such parking space availability information or data may be derived from images captured by traffic cameras or building security cameras and/or the like). Any of the above information can be displayed to the driver on command (or optionally may be automatically displayed in response to the type of driving by the driver when the driving behavior is indicative of someone looking for a parking space).
Thus, and with reference to
The parking system may utilize aspects of the systems described in U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 62/006,391, filed Jun. 2, 2014, and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/169,329, filed Jan. 31, 2014 and published Aug. 7, 2014 as U.S. Publication No. US-2014-0218529, Ser. No. 13/660,306, filed Oct. 25, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,146,898, and/or International Publication No. WO 2013/109869, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
Networked Alarm and Tracking:
The present invention also provides a security or alert system that detects a vehicle break in or other action at the vehicle (such as when the vehicle is parked) and provides a communication or alert to one or more of the owner of the vehicle, systems of other vehicles, local authorities and/or the like. The security system is particularly suited for networked vehicles to enhance the response to intrusion and vandalism of one of the networked vehicles.
Currently, if a criminal acts on a vehicle, then only the electronics or systems or accessories that are in the acted-on vehicle itself may sound an alarm or attempt to record the perpetrator. There may not be any nearby security cameras. The present invention provides for automatic communication of the detected criminal act to other vehicles and/or systems to enhance the alert and/or detection of the criminal act.
The security system of the present invention may use a communication network, such as a wireless communication network, to communicate data pertaining to the detection of a break-in or impact or the like at the equipped vehicle. With the inclusion of a wireless network, systems of nearby vehicles can respond to criminal acts as well. For example, responsive to receipt of a communication derived from the vehicle that is acted on (such as a detection of a vehicle break in or impact at the vehicle or the like), systems of nearby vehicles may sound the respective vehicle alarms, and/or may lock the respective vehicle doors. Such responses are suited for other nearby parked vehicles, which may have their respective security systems running in a sleep mode until the communication from the other system(s) is/are received.
Optionally, responsive to receipt of a communication derived from the vehicle that is acted on, the drivers of nearby similarly equipped vehicles may be alerted as to the where the crime is occurring. Optionally, with the inclusion of internet access or other wireless communication links, the owner of the acted on vehicle may be notified (such as via a text message or automated phone call to the owner's cell phone or the like) and/or the local authorities may be alerted to the occurrence of the detected act. Optionally, responsive to receipt of a communication derived from the vehicle that is acted on, the vision systems of nearby vehicles may activate their sensor or sensors, such as surround-view cameras or the like, to capture image data at and around the nearby vehicles, whereby the captured image data may be recorded by the systems of the nearby vehicles and/or may be transmitted by the systems of the nearby vehicles (such as to the system of the acted on vehicle for future reference or such as to a remote server or such as to the local authorities or the like).
As can be seen with reference to
Thus, the present invention provides a security system that, responsive to a detection of a potential break in at a parked equipped vehicle, may alert other nearby vehicles and/or the vehicle owner and/or the local authorities of the break in. The other vehicle systems may then generate alarms or lock their doors or the like to deter the perpetrator from future action, and/or the other vehicle systems may actuate their cameras or sensors to enhance image capture of the nearby area to assist the authorities in identifying the perpetrator. The present invention thus, responsive to such a detection, causes other nearby vehicles to react accordingly to mitigate the criminal threat. This is similar or analogous to how a bee sting leaves a banana-like odor which compels other bees to react against a threat.
The camera or sensor may comprise any suitable camera or sensor. Optionally, the camera may comprise a “smart camera” that includes the imaging sensor array and associated circuitry and image processing circuitry and electrical connectors and the like as part of a camera module, such as by utilizing aspects of the vision systems described in International Publication Nos. WO 2013/081984 and/or WO 2013/081985, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The system includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera or cameras, such as for detecting objects or other vehicles or pedestrians or the like in the field of view of one or more of the cameras. For example, the image processor may comprise an EyeQ2 or EyeQ3 image processing chip available from Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd. of Jerusalem, Israel, and may include object detection software (such as the types described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,855,755; 7,720,580 and/or 7,038,577, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties), and may analyze image data to detect vehicles and/or other objects. Responsive to such image processing, and when an object or other vehicle is detected, the system may generate an alert to the driver of the vehicle and/or may generate an overlay at the displayed image to highlight or enhance display of the detected object or vehicle, in order to enhance the driver's awareness of the detected object or vehicle or hazardous condition during a driving maneuver of the equipped vehicle.
The vehicle may include any type of sensor or sensors, such as imaging sensors or radar sensors or lidar sensors or ladar sensors or ultrasonic sensors or the like. The imaging sensor or camera may capture image data for image processing and may comprise any suitable camera or sensing device, such as, for example, a two dimensional array of a plurality of photosensor elements arranged in at least 640 columns and 480 rows (at least a 640×480 imaging array, such as a megapixel imaging array or the like), with a respective lens focusing images onto respective portions of the array. The photosensor array may comprise a plurality of photosensor elements arranged in a photosensor array having rows and columns. Preferably, the imaging array has at least 300,000 photosensor elements or pixels, more preferably at least 500,000 photosensor elements or pixels and more preferably at least 1 million photosensor elements or pixels. The imaging array may capture color image data, such as via spectral filtering at the array, such as via an RGB (red, green and blue) filter or via a red/red complement filter or such as via an RCC (red, clear, clear) filter or the like. The logic and control circuit of the imaging sensor may function in any known manner, and the image processing and algorithmic processing may comprise any suitable means for processing the images and/or image data.
For example, the vision system and/or processing and/or camera and/or circuitry may utilize aspects described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,005,974; 5,760,962; 5,877,897; 5,796,094; 5,949,331; 6,222,447; 6,302,545; 6,396,397; 6,498,620; 6,523,964; 6,611,202; 6,201,642; 6,690,268; 6,717,610; 6,757,109; 6,802,617; 6,806,452; 6,822,563; 6,891,563; 6,946,978; 7,859,565; 5,550,677; 5,670,935; 6,636,258; 7,145,519; 7,161,616; 7,230,640; 7,248,283; 7,295,229; 7,301,466; 7,592,928; 7,881,496; 7,720,580; 7,038,577; 6,882,287; 5,929,786 and/or 5,786,772, and/or International Publication Nos. 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No. 61/830,375, filed Jun. 3, 2013; and/or Ser. No. 61/830,377, filed Jun. 3, 2013; which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. The system may communicate with other communication systems via any suitable means, such as by utilizing aspects of the systems described in International Publication Nos. WO/2010/144900; WO 2013/043661 and/or WO 2013/081985, and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/202,005, filed Aug. 17, 2011, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,126,525, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The imaging device and control and image processor and any associated illumination source, if applicable, may comprise any suitable components, and may utilize aspects of the cameras and vision systems described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,550,677; 5,877,897; 6,498,620; 5,670,935; 5,796,094; 6,396,397; 6,806,452; 6,690,268; 7,005,974; 7,937,667; 7,123,168; 7,004,606; 6,946,978; 7,038,577; 6,353,392; 6,320,176; 6,313,454 and/or 6,824,281, and/or International Publication Nos. WO 2010/099416; WO 2011/028686 and/or WO 2013/016409, and/or U.S. Pat. Publication No. US 2010-0020170, and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/534,657, filed Jun. 27, 2012 and published Jan. 3, 2013 as U.S. Publication No. US-2013-0002873, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. The camera or cameras may comprise any suitable cameras or imaging sensors or camera modules, and may utilize aspects of the cameras or sensors described in U.S. Publication No. US-2009-0244361 and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/260,400, filed Sep. 26, 2011, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,542,451, and/or U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,965,336 and/or 7,480,149, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. The imaging array sensor may comprise any suitable sensor, and may utilize various imaging sensors or imaging array sensors or cameras or the like, such as a CMOS imaging array sensor, a CCD sensor or other sensors or the like, such as the types described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,550,677; 5,670,935; 5,760,962; 5,715,093; 5,877,897; 6,922,292; 6,757,109; 6,717,610; 6,590,719; 6,201,642; 6,498,620; 5,796,094; 6,097,023; 6,320,176; 6,559,435; 6,831,261; 6,806,452; 6,396,397; 6,822,563; 6,946,978; 7,339,149; 7,038,577; 7,004,606; 7,720,580 and/or 7,965,336, and/or International Publication Nos. WO/2009/036176 and/or WO/2009/046268, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The camera module and circuit chip or board and imaging sensor may be implemented and operated in connection with various vehicular vision-based systems, and/or may be operable utilizing the principles of such other vehicular systems, such as a vehicle headlamp control system, such as the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,796,094; 6,097,023; 6,320,176; 6,559,435; 6,831,261; 7,004,606; 7,339,149 and/or 7,526,103, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, a rain sensor, such as the types disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,353,392; 6,313,454; 6,320,176 and/or 7,480,149, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, a vehicle vision system, such as a forwardly, sidewardly or rearwardly directed vehicle vision system utilizing principles disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,550,677; 5,670,935; 5,760,962; 5,877,897; 5,949,331; 6,222,447; 6,302,545; 6,396,397; 6,498,620; 6,523,964; 6,611,202; 6,201,642; 6,690,268; 6,717,610; 6,757,109; 6,802,617; 6,806,452; 6,822,563; 6,891,563; 6,946,978 and/or 7,859,565, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, a trailer hitching aid or tow check system, such as the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,005,974, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, a reverse or sideward imaging system, such as for a lane change assistance system or lane departure warning system or for a blind spot or object detection system, such as imaging or detection systems of the types disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,881,496; 7,720,580; 7,038,577; 5,929,786 and/or 5,786,772, and/or U.S. provisional applications, Ser. No. 60/628,709, filed Nov. 17, 2004; Ser. No. 60/614,644, filed Sep. 30, 2004; Ser. No. 60/618,686, filed Oct. 14, 2004; Ser. No. 60/638,687, filed Dec. 23, 2004, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, a video device for internal cabin surveillance and/or video telephone function, such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,760,962; 5,877,897; 6,690,268 and/or 7,370,983, and/or U.S. Publication No. US-2006-0050018, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, a traffic sign recognition system, a system for determining a distance to a leading or trailing vehicle or object, such as a system utilizing the principles disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,396,397 and/or 7,123,168, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and/or the like.
Optionally, the circuit board or chip may include circuitry for the imaging array sensor and or other electronic accessories or features, such as by utilizing compass-on-a-chip or EC driver-on-a-chip technology and aspects such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,255,451 and/or U.S. Pat. No. 7,480,149; and/or U.S. Publication No. US-2006-0061008 and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/578,732, filed Oct. 14, 2009 and published Apr. 22, 2010 as U.S. Publication No. US-2010-0097469, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
Optionally, the vision system may include a display for displaying images captured by one or more of the imaging sensors for viewing by the driver of the vehicle while the driver is normally operating the vehicle. Optionally, for example, the vision system may include a video display device disposed at or in the interior rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle, such as by utilizing aspects of the video mirror display systems described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,690,268 and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/333,337, filed Dec. 21, 2011, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,264,672, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. The video mirror display may comprise any suitable devices and systems and optionally may utilize aspects of the compass display systems described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,370,983; 7,329,013; 7,308,341; 7,289,037; 7,249,860; 7,004,593; 4,546,551; 5,699,044; 4,953,305; 5,576,687; 5,632,092; 5,677,851; 5,708,410; 5,737,226; 5,802,727; 5,878,370; 6,087,953; 6,173,508; 6,222,460; 6,513,252 and/or 6,642,851, and/or European patent application, published Oct. 11, 2000 under Publication No. EP 0 1043566, and/or U.S. Publication No. US-2006-0061008, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. Optionally, the video mirror display screen or device may be operable to display images captured by a rearward viewing camera of the vehicle during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle (such as responsive to the vehicle gear actuator being placed in a reverse gear position or the like) to assist the driver in backing up the vehicle, and optionally may be operable to display the compass heading or directional heading character or icon when the vehicle is not undertaking a reversing maneuver, such as when the vehicle is being driven in a forward direction along a road (such as by utilizing aspects of the display system described in International Publication No. WO 2012/051500, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety).
Optionally, the vision system (utilizing the forward facing camera and a rearward facing camera and other cameras disposed at the vehicle with exterior fields of view) may be part of or may provide a display of a top-down view or birds-eye view system of the vehicle or a surround view at the vehicle, such as by utilizing aspects of the vision systems described in International Publication Nos. WO 2010/099416; WO 2011/028686; WO 2012/075250; WO 2013/019795; WO 2012/075250; WO 2012/145822; WO 2013/081985; WO 2013/086249 and/or WO 2013/109869, and/or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/333,337, filed Dec. 21, 2011, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,264,672, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
Optionally, a video mirror display may be disposed rearward of and behind the reflective element assembly and may comprise a display such as the types disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,530,240; 6,329,925; 7,855,755; 7,626,749; 7,581,859; 7,446,650; 7,370,983; 7,338,177; 7,274,501; 7,255,451; 7,195,381; 7,184,190; 5,668,663; 5,724,187 and/or 6,690,268, and/or in U.S. Publication Nos. US-2006-0061008 and/or US-2006-0050018, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. The display is viewable through the reflective element when the display is activated to display information. The display element may be any type of display element, such as a vacuum fluorescent (VF) display element, a light emitting diode (LED) display element, such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) or an inorganic light emitting diode, an electroluminescent (EL) display element, a liquid crystal display (LCD) element, a video screen display element or backlit thin film transistor (TFT) display element or the like, and may be operable to display various information (as discrete characters, icons or the like, or in a multi-pixel manner) to the driver of the vehicle, such as passenger side inflatable restraint (PSIR) information, tire pressure status, and/or the like. The mirror assembly and/or display may utilize aspects described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,184,190; 7,255,451; 7,446,924 and/or 7,338,177, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. The thicknesses and materials of the coatings on the substrates of the reflective element may be selected to provide a desired color or tint to the mirror reflective element, such as a blue colored reflector, such as is known in the art and such as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,910,854; 6,420,036 and/or 7,274,501, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
Optionally, the display or displays and any associated user inputs may be associated with various accessories or systems, such as, for example, a tire pressure monitoring system or a passenger air bag status or a garage door opening system or a telematics system or any other accessory or system of the mirror assembly or of the vehicle or of an accessory module or console of the vehicle, such as an accessory module or console of the types described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,289,037; 6,877,888; 6,824,281; 6,690,268; 6,672,744; 6,386,742 and 6,124,886, and/or U.S. Publication No. US-2006-0050018, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
Changes and modifications in the specifically described embodiments can be carried out without departing from the principles of the invention, which is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims, as interpreted according to the principles of patent law including the doctrine of equivalents.
The present application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/303,695, filed Jun. 13, 2014, which claims the filing benefits of U.S. provisional application, Ser. No. 61/838,619, filed Jun. 24, 2013, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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