Toyota Motor Corp's "Crown Hybrid" released in May 2008 is equipped with the "Night View" system that displays the view of the road ahead at night. Toyota's new Night View technology In normal daylight, the 1280 pixel wide LCD displays what appear to be normal instruments, but at night, the LCD displays an alternate view in front of the car by displaying the view of the road ahead on the LCD meters, which allows drivers to see better under low-light conditions.
The newest Crown Hybrid employs pattern recognition to recognize pedestrians. Multiple sets of image data on the shapes of pedestrians have been prepared and, the shape of the image shot by the system is compared with the data. When the system determines that a pedestrian is present, yellow frames are displayed around the pedestrian as well as the entire image on the screen.
The yellow frame surrounding the entire image helps driver to recognize pedestrians without moving the sight to the LCD meter.
The pedestrian detection function will not be activated when it is too dark to turn on the low-beam light. Wipers operated in rain will lower the recognition accuracy.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Toyota's New Night View Technology
