TY - PAT A1 - Lessmann, Stephanie A1 - Meuter, Mirko A1 - Mueller, Dennis T1 - Method to determine distance of an object from an automated vehicle with a monocular device N2 - A method of determining the distance of an object from an automated vehicle based on images taken by a monocular image acquiring device. The object is recognized with an object-class by means of an image processing system. Respective position data are determined from the images using a pinhole camera model based on the object-class. Position data indicating in world coordinates the position of a reference point of the object with respect to the plane of the road is used with a scaling factor of the pinhole camera model estimated by means of a Bayes estimator using the position data as observations and under the assumption that the reference point of the object is located on the plane of the road with a predefined probability. The distance of the object from the automated vehicle is calculated from the estimated scaling factor using the pinhole camera model. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=pdf&docid=US000009862318B2&xxxfull=1 ER -