Patent ID: 7365831
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for observing and measuring the lateral environment of a vehicle, wherein a sequence of digital images are recorded by means of a camera, provided with a time stamp and buffered, wherein the vehicle's own movement is sensed in order to select chronologically overlapping stereoscopic image pairs from the buffered images on the basis of this data, wherein the position and orientation of the camera which are present at the two recording times are determined, wherein a local 3D depth image is generated on the basis of the image pairing by means of an algorithm for stereoscopic image processing, wherein the position and orientation of the camera at the recording times are taken into account within the scope of a synthetic stereoscopic geometry, and only buffered images during whose recording the orientation of the camera has not changed significantly are selected to form image pairs.