Patent ID: 9563807
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B60R,G06K

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for analyzing an image recorded by a camera of a vehicle, comprising: obtaining, by processing circuitry, the image of the camera; recognizing, by the processing circuitry, at least one object in a subsection of the obtained image, the subsection imaging a smaller area of the vehicle surroundings than the entire image; providing, by the processing circuitry and based on the recognition, at least one of: i) the subsection of the image, and ii) information about the subsection of the image, to a driver assistance module; and using, by the driver assistance module, the at least one of the subsection of the image and the information about the subsection of the image, instead of the entire image, to analyze the image recorded by the camera; wherein, in the recognizing step, at least one self-luminous object is differentiated from at least one externally irradiated object to establish the subsection of the image.