Patent ID: 9616851
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B60S,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for automatically determining a wear condition of a vehicle component by recognizing directional structures on a window pane of a vehicle, comprising: carrying out an assessment of image points of an image of at least a portion of the window pane, which image points are disposed along an evaluation path, a course of the evaluation path being dependent on an expected orientation of the directional structures on the window pane; carrying out a determination of whether an image point disposed along the evaluation path constitutes a light diffraction effect in a region of the window pane represented by the image point; recognizing a directional structure based on the assessment and the determination; based at least on the determining, classifying a wear condition of the vehicle component; and based at least on the classifying, alerting a user of the wear condition.