Patents Assigned to CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD.
  • Patent number: 12382614
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical ventilator (7) for a temperature control device (16) of an electronic computing device (3), with a housing (10), in which an electrical ventilation device (17) of the electrical ventilator (7) is arranged, and with an electrical contact device (14), which is formed for contacting with a further electrical contact device (15) of the electronic computing device (3), wherein the contact device (14) is formed for transferring at least electrical energy from the electronic computing device (3) to the electrical ventilation device (17), wherein the housing (10) comprises a shaft (18), which is formed for plunging into a recess (19) corresponding thereto on a further housing (9) of the electronic computing device (3) in certain areas, wherein the contact device (14) is fixed in the shaft (18) and is formed for wirelessly and directly contacting with the further contact device (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventor: Shane Trout
  • Patent number: 12361722
    Abstract: A method for providing a yaw angle (105a) between a first vehicle (110) coupled to a second vehicle (100), comprises: receiving an image of the first vehicle from a camera (101) mounted on the second vehicle; performing (210) a polar transformation on the image to form a polar image (400) in a polar space having an origin corresponding to a location of a pivot point (303) of the coupling (302) to the second vehicle in the received image coordinate space; estimating (230) an optical coupling angle by analysing the content of the polar image; receiving a signal from an odometer (102) mounted on the first or second vehicle; estimating a kinematic coupling angle from the signal and a kinematic model of the first vehicle and the coupled second vehicle; and combining the estimated optical coupling angle and the estimated kinematic coupling angle to provide the coupling angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Henrik Marschner, Vera Stehr, Ana Robleda, Yerai Berenguer, Enrique Romay-Castineira, Daniel Garcia, Alan Murphy, Alan Hanniffy, Swaroop Shivamurthy
  • Publication number: 20250227205
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining image frames from each camera disposed along a vehicle, where each image frame corresponds to a same timestamp. The method further includes constructing a first birds-eye view (BEV) image from each image frame with a first BEV module and constructing a second BEV image from each image frame by Inverse Perspective Mapping (IPM) with a second BEV module. The first BEV module extracts features of an external environment of the vehicle from each image frame, transforms the features to a three-dimensional space, and projects the three-dimensional space onto an overhead two-dimensional plane. Subsequently, a merging module merges the first and second BEV images to produce a hybrid BEV image. Features of an external environment of the vehicle within the hybrid BEV image are detected by a deep learning neural network and the hybrid BEV image is displayed to a user in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Lihao Wang, Xinhua Xiao, Thomas Heitzmann, Deep Doshi, Rachid Benmokhtar, Sree Harsha Chowdary Gorantla
  • Publication number: 20250191379
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting and recognizing (31) a street sign (6) in an environment (5) of a motor vehicle (1) by an assistance system (2) of the motor vehicle (1), comprising the steps capturing at least one image (9) of the environment (5) by an optical capturing device (3) of the assistance system (2), encoding the captured image (9) by a transformer device (12) of an electronic computing device (4) of the assistance system (2), first decoding of the encoded image (9) by a detection transformer device (13) of the electronic computing device (4) for decoding object features (15) in the captured image (9), second decoding of the encoded image (9), wherein the second decoding is performed in parallel to the first decoding, by a recognition transformer device (14) of the electronic computing device (4) for text recognition (16) in the captured image (9) and detection and recognition (31) of the street sign (6) depending on the decoded object features (15) and the text recognition (16) by t
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Ahmad Elsallab, Senthil Kumar Yogamani
  • Patent number: 12291152
    Abstract: An image processing method is operable in an image acquisition system comprising a camera arranged to capture successive images with a field of view, FOV of a portion of an environment surrounding a vehicle, the FOV intersecting a window of the vehicle comprising one or more heater elements that are visible within the FOV of the camera. The method comprises: obtaining an image; determining whether one or more sequences of pixels within the image corresponds to an image of a respective heater element, each pixel within the or each sequence of pixels having a colour and an intensity within respective thresholds; correcting, within the image, the or each sequence of pixels corresponding to a respective heater element by replacing pixel values for the or each sequence of pixels with pixel values derived from pixels which do not correspond with a heater element; and displaying the corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Buckley, Trevor Dempsey, Tony Reilly
  • Patent number: 12233785
    Abstract: A method for mounting a camera for a vehicle providing a first housing part of an electronic housing for the camera, in which a first groove is formed on an outer side of the first housing part, providing a housing outer part separate from the first housing part, which comprises a plug channel and an inner side, wherein a second groove is formed on the inner side, introducing an adhesive part into the first groove and/or into the second groove, assembling and retaining the first housing part to the housing outer part by an adhesive connection, wherein thereto the adhesive part in the first groove adheres to the first housing part and the adhesive part on the second groove adheres to the housing outer part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Blain Prendergast, Justyna Bogiel, Noel Farrell
  • Publication number: 20250063704
    Abstract: An electronic computing device for an assistance system of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The device includes a first housing. A first processor device of the assistance system is arranged in a first internal space of the first housing and generates heat during operation. The device also includes a cooling device for cooling the first processor device. The cooling device is formed on a first outer wall of the first housing. A separate second housing with a second internal space is arranged stacked on the first housing viewed along a vertical direction of the electronic computing device. A second processor device of the assistance system is arranged in the second internal space. The second processor device generates heat during operation. A columnar structure of the cooling device is formed on a first outer side of the first outer wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Shane Trout, Beniamin Dragoi
  • Patent number: 12217444
    Abstract: A method for forming a point cloud corresponding to the topography of an imaged environment involves acquiring an image of the environment with a camera having a WFOV lens mounted on a vehicle; changing the camera pose by an adjustment greater than a threshold; and acquiring another image of the environment with the camera at the changed pose. The images are mapped onto respective surfaces to form respective mapped images, defined by the same nonplanar geometry. One of the mapped images is divided into blocks of pixels. For each block, a depth map is formed by performing a search through the other mapped image to evaluate a disparity in the position of the location of the block of pixels in each of the mapped images. The depth map is converted into a partial point cloud corresponding to the local topography of the environment surrounding the vehicle as it moves through the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Ciaran Hughes, Pantelis Ermilios, Matthias Lenk, Sunil Chandra
  • Publication number: 20250040104
    Abstract: A housing for at least one electronic circuit includes a housing portion with an inner surface. The housing includes a heat spreader component which is connected to the inner surface of the housing portion. The heat spreader component includes a contact region connected to an electronic component of the at least one electronic circuit. The heat spreader component includes a material with a thermal conductivity greater than the housing portion. The heat spreader component has a star-like shape including an inner contact region for connecting the electronic component to arms extending from the inner contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Justyna Bogiel, Stephen Gibbons
  • Patent number: 12175763
    Abstract: According to a method for determining a trailer orientation, an image (13) depicting a component (14) of the trailer (12) is generated by means of a camera system (15). Predetermined first and second reference structures (16, 18) are identified based on the image (13). The trailer orientation is determined by means of a computing unit (17) depending on the reference structures (16, 18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Poornima Narayanaswamy, Naveen Kuruba
  • Publication number: 20240369914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a camera for a motor vehicle. The camera includes a lens module, a lens holder body, which is mechanically connected to the lens module, and an electrical heater element for heating the lens module. The heater element is arranged at a surface of the lens holder body facing away from the lens module. The heater element is thermally connected to the lens module via the lens holder body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick Young, Blain Prendergast
  • Patent number: 12126121
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to an electric plug (1) for connection to a vehicle camera (18), comprising a plug head (2) and at least one electric signal contact (4) and at least one ground contact (5), which are configured on the plug head (2), wherein the plug head (2) comprises a carrier block (7) for the signal contact (4) and the ground contact (5), and the carrier block (7) comprises a jacket wall (8), on which a cover collar (9) projecting outwardly and extending circumferentially on the jacket wall (8) is arranged, wherein an outwardly projecting shielding flap (10, 11) of the plug (11) is integrally formed with the cover collar (9), wherein the shielding flap (10, 11) is connected to a connecting element (16), which is electrically connected to the cover collar (9) and the ground contact (5). One aspect relates to an arrangement (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Estremera, Richard Tadle
  • Publication number: 20240312226
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analyzing a roundabout in an environment for a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes generating at least one initial feature map by applying a feature encoder module of a trained neural network to an input image. The input image depicts the roundabout. The method includes next applying a classificator module of the trained neural network to the initial feature map. An output of the classificator module represents a road region on the input image. The method includes next applying a radius estimation module of the trained neural network to the initial feature map. An output of the radius estimation module depends on an inner radius of the roundabout and an outer radius of the roundabout. The method includes finally determining an entry point and an exit point of the roundabout depending on the output of the classificator module and depending on the output of the radius estimation module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Akhilesh Kumar Malviya, Arindam Das, Senthil Kumar Yogamani
  • Publication number: 20240205540
    Abstract: A method for focal adjustment of an automotive camera is disclosed. The method includes capturing a first image with an imager of the camera during a first frame period, exposing a plurality of rows of a sensor array of the imager according to a rolling shutter mode, and capturing a second image with the imager during a second frame period after the first frame period. The method further includes determining a first area on the sensor array, which corresponds to a predefined region of interest for the first frame period, determining a first subset of the plurality of rows, determining a focal adjustment period which starts after all rows of the first subset of rows have been exposed during the first frame period, and adjusting at least one focal parameter of the camera during the focal adjustment period according to a predefined focal setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventor: Patrick McDaid
  • Publication number: 20240205542
    Abstract: A method for focal adjustment of an automotive camera is disclosed. The method includes providing a target focal setting for the camera for predefined regions of interest, determining a first and second focal setting for each subset of regions of interest depending on the respective target focal settings of the regions, capturing a first and second image during the first frame period respectively. The first and second focal settings are used during at least part of the first and second frame periods respectively. Between the capturing of the first and second images, the first focal setting is changed to the second focal setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventor: Patrick McDaid
  • Publication number: 20240187713
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a camera for a motor vehicle. The camera includes a housing that delimits the boundary of a receiving space. A lens module of the camera and a circuit board of the camera are arranged in the receiving space. The circuit board and the lens module are arranged axially spaced apart from each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the camera so that between the circuit board and the lens module, a clearance is formed. Between the circuit board and the lens module, an elastic sealing is arranged so that the clearance is sealed, by the sealing, from the remaining volume space in the housing. The sealing includes a predetermined bending point where a width of the sealing is minimal to allow bending.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventor: Mark Shaw
  • Patent number: 11882367
    Abstract: An image processing method comprises: performing a spectral analysis of a HDR image (220) to determine whether the HDR image (220) comprises spectral components indicative of a lighting of the scene by a modulated light source; analysing meta-data associated with a set of component images (221) for the HDR image to determine a difference between meta-data for one component image of the set and meta-data for at least one other component image of the set, any difference being indicative of an artefact caused by illumination of the scene by a modulated light source; combining a result of the spectral analysis and the meta-data analysis to provide an indication that illumination of the scene by a modulated light source is causing a visible artefact in at least one of the HDR images; and changing a HDR operating mode of the image processing system (200) accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Samantha Chalut, Patrick Denny, Brian Deegan
  • Publication number: 20160129788
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for presenting safety information on a display device (4) of a motor vehicle (1), wherein the motor vehicle (1) includes an environment imaging device (5, 6, 7), by which an object (14) in an environmental region (10) of the motor vehicle (1) is pictorially captured, wherein a distortion demonstration (27) is presented on the display device (4) as safety information, which describes a deviation of a distorted mapping (24) of the object (14) causally generated by the environment imaging device (5, 6, 7) to an undistorted mapping (23) of the object (14) compared thereto, wherein at least one distorted mapping (24) is displayed as an image (28) and at least one undistorted mapping (23) is displayed as a further image (29) on the display device (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Michael Thomas Deegan, Patrick Eoghan Denny
  • Publication number: 20150334272
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a camera (3, 4) of a motor vehicle (1), wherein a cover (10, 11) is moved between an operating position, in which the camera (3, 4) provides images of an environmental region (12, 13) of the motor vehicle (1), and a covering position, in which the cover (10, 11) covers the camera (3, 4) against the environmental region (12, 13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Michael Thomas Deegan, Patrick Eoghan Denny, John Toner, Vincent Duffy, Fergal Lydon
  • Publication number: 20150314736
    Abstract: A method for operating a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle is provided. A first image sequence of a first rear environmental region of the motor vehicle is provided by a first camera system of an electronic rearview mirror and the first image sequence is displayed on a display device of the electronic rearview mirror disposed in an interior of the motor vehicle. Furthermore, a second image sequence of a second environmental region of the motor vehicle, which overlaps with the first environmental region at least in certain areas, is provided by a second camera system of an environmental capturing device. The electronic rearview mirror is then checked for presence of a malfunction by a computing device of the driver assistance system and the second image sequence is displayed on the display device of the electronic rearview mirror when the malfunction is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: CiarĂ¡n Hughes, Myles Friel, Jonathan Horgan