Summary of the invention
The shortcoming of prior art in view of the above, the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) and method, obtaining that vehicle front scene definition is low for solving in prior art, detection range is near, the unsafe problem of scene brought nighttime driving not easy to identify.
For achieving the above object and other relevant objects, the present invention, providing a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) to facilitate, comprising: image acquisition units, is arranged on outside vehicle front, for obtaining vehicle front scene; Described image acquisition units comprises the parallel ccd detector of optical axis and Infrared Detectors; Described ccd detector and described Infrared Detectors respectively generate a road vision signal; Control unit, is connected with described image acquisition units, the vision signal that vision signal and described Infrared Detectors for reading the generation of described ccd detector generate, and selects required vision signal synthetic image; Display mode selected cell, is arranged in vehicle, is connected with described control unit, controls to select signal to make described control unit select the corresponding vision signal synthetic image of signal behavior according to described control to described control unit for exporting; Display unit, with described control unit, for showing the image that described control unit generates.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, described control unit comprises picture processing chip, and described picture processing chip generates corresponding image according to described vision signal.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, described control unit also comprises the display control board be connected with described display mode selected cell; Described display control board selects the corresponding vision signal of signal behavior to enter described picture processing chip according to the control that described display mode selected cell exports.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, described picture processing chip generates the first image according to the vision signal that described ccd detector generates; Described picture processing chip generates the second image according to the vision signal that described Infrared Detectors generates; The vision signal that described picture processing chip generates according to described ccd detector and the vision signal that described Infrared Detectors generates generate coloured image.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, before the described coloured image of generation, the vision signal that the vision signal adopting Gauss algorithm or wavelet transformation to generate described ccd detector and described Infrared Detectors generate carries out image procossing.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the optical axis of described ccd detector and the optical axis of described Infrared Detectors are in same level line.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the optical axis of described ccd detector and the optical axis of described Infrared Detectors are in same vertical line.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, described Infrared Detectors is non-refrigerated infrared focal plane probe.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, when the CCD vision signal supersaturation inputted, control unit automatically controls to switch and exports infrared image.
The present invention conveniently provides a kind of Vehicular night auxiliary driving method other one, comprising: the ccd detector adopting optical axis parallel and Infrared Detectors obtain vehicle front scene, and described ccd detector and described Infrared Detectors respectively generate a road vision signal; Select required vision signal synthetic image: generate the first image according to the vision signal that described ccd detector generates; The second image is generated according to the vision signal that described Infrared Detectors generates; The vision signal that the vision signal generated according to described ccd detector and described Infrared Detectors generate generates coloured image; Display image.
As mentioned above, a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) of the present invention and method, have following beneficial effect:
1, the present invention breaches traditional simple with the simple detector working method of ccd detector imaging or Infrared Detectors infrared imaging, instead the double detector that optical axis is parallel is adopted, namely ccd detector imaging and Infrared Detectors infrared imaging obtain the coloured image of vehicle at night front scenery simultaneously by picture processing chip, the present invention has both ccd detector and Infrared Detectors advantage separately, the coloured image that definition is high, detection range is far away, scene is easy to identify can be obtained, thus improve night safe.
2, simultaneously, the present invention is configured with display mode selected cell, also can be switched between different display modes by display mode selected cell system, to meet the different needs.
Embodiment
Below by way of specific instantiation, embodiments of the present invention are described, those skilled in the art the content disclosed by this specification can understand other advantages of the present invention and effect easily.The present invention can also be implemented or be applied by embodiments different in addition, and the every details in this specification also can based on different viewpoints and application, carries out various modification or change not deviating under spirit of the present invention.
It should be noted that, the diagram provided in the present embodiment only illustrates basic conception of the present invention in a schematic way, then only the assembly relevant with the present invention is shown in graphic but not component count, shape and size when implementing according to reality is drawn, it is actual when implementing, and the kenel of each assembly, quantity and ratio can be a kind of change arbitrarily, and its assembly layout kenel also may be more complicated.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) and method, obtaining that vehicle front scene definition is low for solving in prior art, detection range is near, the unsafe problem of scene brought nighttime driving not easy to identify.Below will elaborate a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) of the present invention and square ratio juris and execution mode, and make those skilled in the art not need creative work can understand a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) of the present invention and method.
Refer to Fig. 1, be shown as the structural representation of a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) of the present invention.As shown in Figure 1, Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) 1 comprises: image acquisition units 11, control unit 12, display mode selected cell 13 and display unit 14, below describes above-mentioned each unit in detail.
Described image acquisition units 11 is arranged on outside vehicle front for obtaining vehicle front scene.Particularly, in the present invention, described image acquisition units 11 comprises the parallel CCD(charge couping device of optical axis, charge coupled array) detector and Infrared Detectors 112, described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112 respectively generate a road vision signal.
Further, in the present embodiment, when the optical axis of described ccd detector 111 and the optical axis of described Infrared Detectors 112 parallel to each other, following setting can be taked in the position of described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112.
1) described ccd detector 111 and the horizontally-arranged setting of described Infrared Detectors 112 one-tenth one, for visual field is identical, preferably, the optical axis of described ccd detector 111 and the optical axis of described Infrared Detectors 112 are in same level line.Like this, the vehicle front scene scope difference that obtains of described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112 is little.
2) described ccd detector 111 is arranged with described Infrared Detectors 112 one-tenth one tandem, and for visual field is identical, preferably, the optical axis of described ccd detector 111 and the optical axis of described Infrared Detectors 112 are in same vertical line.Because described ccd detector 111 is arranged with described Infrared Detectors 112 one-tenth one tandem, longitudinal upper-lower position does not affect Effect on Detecting.Described ccd detector 111 can be adopted to be positioned at longitudinal arrangement mode above described Infrared Detectors 112, described ccd detector 111 also can be adopted to be positioned at longitudinal arrangement mode below described Infrared Detectors 112.
Closer, in the present embodiment, described ccd detector 111 is low-light (level) ccd detector, and described Infrared Detectors 112 is non-refrigerated infrared focal plane probe.Due in ccd detector 111, the induction photosphere of parallel photosphere and CCD adopts tin oxide selenium material to strengthen the transfer rate of visible ray, and luminous energy loss can be made to minimum, and geometric distortion drops to minimum, so ccd detector 111 has image taking speed soon, the feature that exposure dose is little.
Described Infrared Detectors 112 is specially thermal infrared imager.Principle is, all its own transmission electromagnetic radiation of the object of all temperature more than thermodynamics absolute zero, and the radiation peak corresponding to the temperature of general nature circle object is all at infrared band.Therefore, utilize infrared thermal imagery to observe object without the need to external light source, compare visible ray and there is the ability better penetrating smog.Infrared thermal imagery is the important supplement means to visible images, is widely used in the fields such as infrared guidance, infrared night vision, safety monitoring and vision enhancement.
Significantly improve in volume, cost relative to general Infrared Detectors 112 uncooled fpa detector, make thermal infrared imager really come into industry and civil area on a large scale.Non-refrigerated infrared focal plane probe is made up of pixel two-dimentional repeated arrangement on focal plane of many MEMS micro-bridge structures, the thermal radiation of each pixel to specific incidence angle is measured, its general principle is as follows: 1) infrared radiation causes variations in temperature after being absorbed by the infrared absorption layer in pixel, and then makes the change in resistance of amorphous silicon thermistor; 2) amorphous silicon thermistor is supported on above silicon substrate by MEMS heat-insulated microbridge, and by supporting construction with make COMS on a silicon substrate circuit of staying alone and be connected; 3) cmos circuit changes thermistor change in resistance into difference current and carries out integration amplification, obtains the gray value of single pixel in thermal-induced imagery after sampling.In order to improve responsiveness and the sensitivity of detector, require that detector pixel microbridge has good thermal insulation, simultaneously for ensureing the frame frequency of infrared imaging, the thermal capacitance of pixel need be made as far as possible little of to ensure enough little thermal time constant, therefore MEMS pixel utilizes elongated micro-cantilever to support to improve heat-insulating property, thermo-sensitive material is produced on bridge floor, and bridge floor is as far as possible light, thin to reduce thermal mass.Make reflector at substrate, and form resonant cavity between bridge floor, improve INFRARED ABSORPTION efficiency.Pixel microbridge is connected with the CMOS reading circuit in substrate by the two ends of cantilever beam.So non-refrigerated infrared focal plane probe is the integrated large array device of CMOS-MEMS monomer.
Therefore the present invention has both ccd detector 111 and the respective advantage of Infrared Detectors 112, can obtain the coloured image that definition is high, detection range is far away, scene is easy to identify, thus improves night safe.
Described control unit 12 is connected with described image acquisition units 11, and the vision signal that vision signal and described Infrared Detectors 112 for reading the generation of described ccd detector 111 generate also selects required vision signal synthetic image.
Particularly, in the present embodiment, described control unit 12 comprises picture processing chip 121, and described picture processing chip 121 generates corresponding image according to described vision signal.
Particularly, described picture processing chip 121 is high rate burst communication chip, and the vision signal that described picture processing chip 121 can generate according to described ccd detector 111 generates the first image; The vision signal that described picture processing chip 121 can generate according to described Infrared Detectors 112 generates the second image; The vision signal that described picture processing chip 121 can generate according to described ccd detector 111 and the vision signal that described Infrared Detectors 112 generates generate coloured image.
That is, described picture processing chip 121 can realize the process to image, thus what make output is coloured image.Make the former coloured silk of reservation export the technology of coloured image known by image technique those skilled in the art, do not repeat them here.In the present invention, utilize the process of described picture processing chip 121 pairs of images, the scene image that exportable described ccd detector 111 detects, the scene image that exportable described Infrared Detectors 112 detects, the scene image of also exportable described ccd detector 111 and the output after registration and fusion of described Infrared Detectors 112 two-path video signal.
In addition, in the present embodiment, before the described coloured image of generation, the ccd image that the infrared image that described Infrared Detectors 112 produces, described ccd detector 111 produce is through necessary image procossing before fusion, and the vision signal of the vision signal that the conventional method that Gauss algorithm or wavelet transformation can be adopted to step on image procossing generates described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112 generation carries out image procossing.
In the present embodiment, described control unit 12 also comprises the display control board 122 be connected with described display mode selected cell 13.Described display control board 122 selects the corresponding vision signal of signal behavior to enter described picture processing chip 121 according to the control that described display mode selected cell 13 exports.Described picture processing chip 121 generates corresponding image according to concrete vision signal again.So the present invention can be switched by display control board 122, to meet the different needs between different display modes.
From upper, described DAS (Driver Assistant System) 1 can switch between different display modes, comprise independent infrared image pattern, CCD video image pattern or the aforementioned color pattern image that both are fused into, display mode switches the described display control board 122 of dependence and realizes.
It should be noted that, when the vision signal supersaturation that described ccd detector 111 inputs, described display mode selected cell 13 controls to switch automatically, makes described picture processing chip 121 process the vision signal of described Infrared Detectors 112 generation, thus exports infrared image.
Display mode selected cell 13 is arranged in vehicle and is connected with described control unit 12, controls to select signal to make described control unit 12 select the corresponding vision signal synthetic image of signal behavior according to described control to described control unit 12 for exporting.Particularly, described display mode selected cell 13 exports and controls to select signal to make described display control board 122 select the corresponding vision signal of signal behavior to input to graphics processing unit according to described control to described display control board 122, thus generates corresponding image.
Described display mode selected cell 13 can button, and the form of switch embodies, and described driver can display mode selected cell 13 described in Non-follow control, inputs the display mode that it is wanted.
Described display unit 14 and described control unit 12, for showing the image that described control unit 12 generates.Described display unit 14 can be new line display instrument.
Refer to Fig. 2, be shown as the schematic flow sheet of a kind of Vehicular night auxiliary driving method of the present invention.As shown in Figure 2, the present invention conveniently provides a kind of Vehicular night auxiliary driving method other one, comprises the following steps:
S1, adopt the parallel ccd detector 111 of optical axis and Infrared Detectors 112 to obtain vehicle front scene, described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112 respectively generate a road vision signal.The position relationship of described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112 as previously mentioned.
S2, selects required vision signal synthetic image: generate the first image according to the vision signal that described ccd detector 111 generates; The second image is generated according to the vision signal that described Infrared Detectors 112 generates; The vision signal that the vision signal generated according to described ccd detector 111 and described Infrared Detectors 112 generate generates coloured image.
That is, in the present invention, according to the difference receiving vision signal, the scene image that exportable described ccd detector 111 detects, the scene image that exportable described Infrared Detectors 112 detects, the scene image of also exportable described ccd detector 111 and the output after registration and fusion of described Infrared Detectors 112 two-path video signal.
S3, shows above-mentioned each image.Here, display shows respectively, is not show simultaneously.During display, display first image or one of the second image or coloured image can be selected.
In sum, a kind of Vehicular night DAS (Driver Assistant System) of the present invention, has following beneficial effect:
1, the present invention breaches traditional simple with the simple detector working method of ccd detector imaging or Infrared Detectors infrared imaging, instead the double detector that optical axis is parallel is adopted, namely ccd detector imaging and Infrared Detectors infrared imaging obtain the coloured image of vehicle at night front scenery simultaneously by picture processing chip, the present invention has both ccd detector and Infrared Detectors advantage separately, the coloured image that definition is high, detection range is far away, scene is easy to identify can be obtained, thus improve night safe.
2, simultaneously, the present invention is configured with display mode selected cell, also can be switched between different display modes by display mode selected cell system, to meet the different needs.
So the present invention effectively overcomes various shortcoming of the prior art and tool high industrial utilization.
Above-described embodiment is illustrative principle of the present invention and effect thereof only, but not for limiting the present invention.Any person skilled in the art scholar all without prejudice under spirit of the present invention and category, can modify above-described embodiment or changes.Therefore, such as have in art usually know the knowledgeable do not depart from complete under disclosed spirit and technological thought all equivalence modify or change, must be contained by claim of the present invention.