Patent ID: 11904666
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. Apparatus for a vehicle with a passenger cabin, comprising:
an imaging system including at least one camera capturing image data, wherein the image data includes at least a portion of the passenger cabin;
a region of interest (ROI) overlay receiving the image data and extracting selected image data according to predetermined scene elements of an environment of the vehicle;
an occupant overlay configured to detect a vehicle occupant represented in the selected image data and configured to generate truncated image data by subtracting image data corresponding to the vehicle occupant from the selected image data;
an ambient light model using environmental parameters including a sun position to estimate an expected sunload range; and
a mapper generating a sunload map comprising respective sunload values for a plurality of locations on the vehicle according to the truncated image data and the expected sunload range.