Method for determining a current distance and/or a current speed of a target object based on a reference point in a camera image, camera system and motor vehicle

• Main Author: Rammos, Perikles
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.02.2022
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS; MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEARDIMENSIONS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SURVEYING; TESTING

A method for determining a current distance and/or a current speed of a target object relative to a motor vehicle based on an image of the target object, in which the image is provided by a camera of the motor vehicle, where characteristic features of the target object are extracted from the image and a reference point associated with the target object is determined based on the characteristic features for determining the distance and/or the speed, wherein the distance and/or the speed are determined based on the reference point, and a baseline is determined in the image based on the characteristic features, which is in a transition area from the depicted target object to a ground surface depicted in the image, and a point located on the baseline is determined as the reference point.