A system and methods related to hitch assist are provided herein. An imager captures rear-vehicle images. A processor is configured to extract trailer and ground features from the captured images, compute vehicle motion displacement based on optical flow of the ground features, estimate a height of each trailer feature based on vehicle motion displacement and optical flow of the trailer features, and determine a trailer height based on the estimated heights of at least a portion of the trailer features.
HITCH ASSIST SYSTEM WITH TRAILER HEIGHT ESTIMATION AND HITCH COUPLER IDENTIFICATION
2019-08-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Hitch assist system with trailer height estimation and hitch coupler identification
European Patent Office | 2019
|HITCH ASSIST SYSTEM WITH HITCH COUPLER IDENTIFICATION FEATURE AND HITCH COUPLER HEIGHT ESTIMATION
European Patent Office | 2019
|Hitch assist system with hitch coupler identification feature and hitch coupler height estimation
European Patent Office | 2019
|Hitch assist system with hitch coupler identification feature and hitch coupler height estimation
European Patent Office | 2019
|HITCH ASSIST SYSTEM WITH HITCH COUPLER IDENTIFICATION FEATURE AND HITCH COUPLER HEIGHT ESTIMATION
European Patent Office | 2019
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