Patent ID: 11900696
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A system for processing a plurality of images, each image of the plurality of images having been acquired by a respective image acquisition module of a vehicle and each image acquisition module being oriented outwardly with respect to the vehicle, the system comprising:
a module configured to elaborate a bird's eye view image of surroundings of the vehicle using pixel values of pixels of at least one portion of each image of the plurality of images as pixel values of the bird's eye view image,
a module configured to perform, on the bird's eye view image, a detection of at least one lane marked on a surface on which the vehicle is and visible on the bird's eye view image,
wherein the detection is performed based on an indication of whether individual pixels of the bird's eye view image belong to a lane, and
a module configured to fit a curve on the lane by determining the curve that minimizes a distance between pixels that belong to the lane and pixels that belong to a curve defined using a mathematical representation of the curve.