Patent ID: 11914679
Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. The system of claim 1, wherein:
the non thermal radiation associated with the object comprises a portion of the NIR radiation emitted from the active NIR range finder and reflected from the object;
the non-thermal sensor comprises one or more active NIR cameras, the one or more NIR cameras configured to provide the non-thermal data based on the NIR radiation reflected from the object;
the non-thermal data comprises NIR image data;
the thermal data comprises thermal image data; and

the processor is further configured to determine a distance between the system and the object based on a stereoscopic image-processing technique using corresponding time-aligned images extracted from the thermal image data and the NIR image data.