18337196. VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL USING BRIGHTNESS DETECTION (Ford Global Technologies, LLC)
VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL USING BRIGHTNESS DETECTION
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Inventor(s)
Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam of Canton MI (US)
Robert Schroeter of Livonia MI (US)
Justin Miller of Berkley MI (US)
Anna Marie-Sophia Hoff of Köln (DE)
VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL USING BRIGHTNESS DETECTION
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18337196 titled 'VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL USING BRIGHTNESS DETECTION
Original Abstract Submitted
A vehicle includes at least one camera that captures at least one image of a region external to the vehicle. The vehicle includes an environmental control system of the vehicle having at least one of lighting control and climate control for the vehicle. The vehicle includes control circuitry configured to process a first set of images of the plurality of images at a first sampling rate, determine a brightness condition of the region external to the vehicle based on processing the first set of images, process a second set of images of the plurality of images at a second sampling rate different than the first sampling rate, detect a shift in the brightness condition based on the second set of images, and control the environmental control system in response to the shift in the brightness condition.