Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a front camera disposed at a windshield of a vehicle equipped with the system and a side camera disposed at a side mirror of the vehicle. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the cameras. The vehicular vision system, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the front camera, detects a leading vehicle traveling in front of the equipped vehicle in a traffic lane the equipped vehicle is also traveling along. The vehicular vision system, responsive to determination of an intent of the equipped vehicle to change lanes and to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the side camera, detects an oncoming vehicle traveling in a traffic lane adjacent to the traffic lane the equipped vehicle is traveling along.

Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes an imager printed circuit board (imager PCB), a lens barrel accommodating a lens, and a camera housing. The imager PCB has an imager disposed at a first side of the imager PCB. The lens barrel is disposed at a first portion of the camera housing. The imager PCB is attached at the first portion or a second portion of the camera housing, and, with the imager PCB attached at the first portion or the second portion of the camera housing and with the lens barrel disposed at the first portion, the imager at the first side of the imager PCB faces the lens accommodated by the lens barrel. The vehicular camera assembly includes at least one component that (i) is formed of a thermoplastic material, and (ii) has undergone electron beam treatment (EB treatment) that crosslinks molecules between polymer chains of the thermoplastic material.

Abstract: A vehicular control system includes a camera and a radar sensor disposed at an equipped vehicle. The system, via processing of image data and processing of sensor data, determines other vehicles present on the road ahead of the equipped vehicle. The system, responsive to determining the presence of a plurality of other vehicles present on the road, determines a threat level for each vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles. An emergency braking system of the equipped vehicle is controlled responsive to the determined threat levels. When a vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles is no longer detectable via processing of image data captured by the camera and processing of sensor data captured by the radar sensor, the system predicts a position for the no longer detectable vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles.

Abstract: A vehicular safety system includes a plurality of vehicular cameras disposed at a vehicle. Image data captured by a forward-viewing vehicular camera of the plurality of vehicular cameras is processed by the vehicular safety system for headlamp control and for lane departure warning and/or object detection. At least one other sensing system of the vehicle is operable to capture sensor data. Responsive at least in part to processing by the vehicular safety system of captured image data and captured sensor data, a potential collision involving the vehicle is determined. Responsive to determination of the potential collision involving the vehicle, a safety feature of the vehicle changes its condition. If actual collision does not occur, the safety feature returns to its condition that existed prior to determination of the potential collision.

Abstract: A vehicular camera module includes a main circuit board and an imager circuit board having an imager disposed thereat. A lens barrel accommodating a lens is at least partially disposed in a passageway of a lens holder. The vehicular camera module includes a housing having an upper cover and a lower cover that are joined together. Electronic circuitry disposed at a main printed circuit board of the main circuit board includes an image processor. The electronic circuitry disposed at the main printed circuit board of the main circuit board includes an image processor. With the imager operated to capture image data, captured image data is provided via a flexible ribbon cable to the electronic circuitry disposed at the main printed circuit board of the main circuit board. The imager is disposed within a rear portion of the housing and is not accommodated within a front portion of the housing.

Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a lens comprising a plurality of optical elements, a lens holder, and an imager printed circuit board. The plurality of optical elements includes at least one plastic optical element and at least one glass optical element. The imager printed circuit board has circuitry disposed thereat. The circuitry of the imager printed circuit board includes an imager that has an imaging array. The lens is held in optical alignment with the imaging array of the imager via an adhesive. The adhesive bonds the lens barrel to the lens holder. A flexible electrical ribbon cable electrically connects the circuitry of the imager printed circuit board with additional circuitry of the vehicular camera. The vehicular camera, when installed and used in a vehicle, captures image data for a vision system of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a PCB having an imager disposed thereat, a lens barrel accommodating a lens, and a lens barrel support structure that protrudes from the PCB and at least partially circumscribes the imager. The lens barrel has an outer surface between the ends of the lens barrel. The outer surface of the lens barrel is adhesively bonded to an inner surface of the lens barrel support structure via adhesive. The outer surface of the lens barrel opposes the inner surface of the lens barrel support structure. With the adhesive in its uncured state and contacting the opposed surfaces, the imager is aligned with the lens accommodated at the lens barrel. With the imager aligned with the lens, the adhesive is cured to adhesively attach the lens barrel at the lens barrel support structure.

Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera having a field of view that includes at least a driver's head region within a cabin of a vehicle. The camera includes an imager having a two-dimensional array of photosensing elements. The camera includes a lens array of lens elements disposed at the array of photosensing elements of the imager. The lens elements are disposed over respective sub-arrays of photosensing elements for imaging light onto the respective sub-arrays of photosensing elements. With an illumination source operated to emit near infrared light to illuminate at least the driver's head region, and responsive at least in part to image processing by an image processor of image data captured by the sub-arrays of photosensing elements associated with the respective lens elements of the lens array, the system determines the head of a driver of the vehicle and the driver's facing direction.

Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera disposed at an interior cabin of a vehicle. Electronic circuitry of an ECU includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The camera views at least a head region of a driver of the vehicle and is operable to capture image data. Based on processing at the ECU of the captured image data, the vehicular driver monitoring system determines an attentiveness level of the driver. Responsive to determination that the attentiveness level of the driver is below a threshold level of attentiveness, the vehicular driver monitoring system alerts a person exterior the vehicle of the determined inattentive driver.

Abstract: A vehicular trailer angle detection system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle. The vehicular trailer angle detection system, via processing of frames of image data captured by the camera, tracks changes of features present in a current frame of captured image data and present in a previous frame of captured image data and determines features of the trailer based on the tracked changes of features. The determined features of the trailer have respective changes between the current frame of image data captured by the camera and the previous frame of image data captured by the camera. The vehicular trailer angle detection system determines angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle based at least in part on tracking of the determined features of the trailer over multiple captured frames of image data.

Abstract: A vehicular parking assist system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The vehicular parking assist system, via processing of captured sensor data, and while the vehicle is conducting a parking maneuver, detects an object and tracks location of the detected object relative to the vehicle until the detected object leaves a field of sensing of the at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors. The system, after the detected object leaves the field of sensing of the at least one sensor, predicts location of the detected object relative to the vehicle. The system, upon completion of the parking maneuver, determines that the detected object is hazardous based on the predicted location of the detected object relative to the vehicle, and responsive to determining that the detected object is hazardous, restricts opening of a door of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicular trailer guidance system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a rear backup camera disposed at a vehicle. A human machine interface (HMI) is operable in (i) a trailer left-backup mode, (i) a trailer straight-backup mode and (iii) a trailer right-backup mode. Responsive to selection by the driver of the trailer left-backup mode or trailer right-backup mode, the ECU sets a desired trailer angle of the trailer tongue leftward or rightward to an angle that is commensurate with a driver-selected setting of an input device. Responsive to selection by the driver of the trailer straight-backup mode, the ECU sets the desired trailer angle to a zero degree angle. The ECU, while the vehicle is backing up the trailer, controls the power steering system of the vehicle to steer the vehicle to back up the trailer to have the determined trailer angle coincide with the set desired trailer angle.

Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a printed circuit board, a metallic shield element at least partially enclosing the printed circuit board, and a housing at least partially enclosing the shield element. The housing includes a front housing portion accommodating a lens. An imager is disposed at the printed circuit board and is optically aligned with the lens. The camera assembly includes an electrical connector for electrically connecting an electrical connecting element of the printed circuit board to a wire harness of a vehicle. The shield element includes at least one seam, with one or more seams including a respective gap between opposing edge regions of the shield element and an overlapping tab that extends from one of the opposing edge regions that at least partially closes the respective seam. The housing and the shield element are in contact.

Abstract: A method for enhancing a vehicular driving assistance system includes obtaining in-vehicle test data representative of performance of the vehicular driving assistance system of a vehicle during operation of the vehicular driving assistance system and determining, using the in-vehicle test data, a second order transfer function that models operation of the vehicular driving assistance system. The second order transfer function matches a magnitude response of the in-vehicle test data. The method includes providing a simulation environment. The simulation environment simulates the vehicular driving assistance system using the second order transfer function. The method includes determining, using the simulation environment, a feedforward contribution and a feedback contribution of the vehicular driving assistance system, and enhancing the vehicular driving assistance system based on adjustment of the feedforward contribution and the feedback contribution of the vehicular driving assistance system.

Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an event camera disposed in a cabin of a vehicle and viewing the head of a driver of the vehicle. The dynamic range of the event camera is at least 100 dB. The response time of the event camera is less than 10,000 microseconds. The event camera has a quantum efficiency of at least 15% for near-infrared light having a wavelength of 940 nm. The system, responsive to processing of data output by the event camera, monitors the driver of the vehicle. Responsive at least in part (a) to monitoring of the driver of the vehicle and (b) to vehicle kinematic data provided to the ECU, at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a driver attentiveness alert is generated, (ii) a driver drowsiness alert is generated, (iii) steering of the vehicle is controlled and (iv) braking of the vehicle is controlled.

Abstract: A vehicular parking assistance system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and capturing image data. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The parking assistance system, responsive to an input, determines a direction of travel for an automated parking maneuver. The parking assistance system, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines a boundary of a free space in the direction of travel for the automated parking maneuver. The free space at least partially bounds an area where the vehicle can maneuver without colliding with a detected object. The parking assistance system, while driving the vehicle in the direction of travel, laterally adjusts a path of the vehicle based on the determined boundary of free space to avoid the detected object.

Abstract: A vehicular camera includes an imaging array sensor that includes one million photosensors arranged in rows and columns and a microlens array. The microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses disposed at the imaging array sensor. Each individual microlens of the plurality of microlenses includes a respective plurality of refractive indices. The microlens array is disposed at the imaging array sensor so that light incident at the vehicular camera passes through the microlens array to be incident at the imaging array sensor. Light incident at and passing through each individual microlens of the microlens array is incident at a respective sub-array of the photosensors of the imaging array sensor. The vehicular camera is configured to be disposed at a vehicle equipped with a vehicular vision system.

Abstract: A vehicular trailer hitching assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system, via image processing of image data captured by the camera during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle toward a trailer that is spaced rearward from the vehicle, detects the trailer. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system determines relative location of a trailer coupler of the detected trailer to a hitch ball of the vehicle and determines a path of travel for the vehicle to maneuver the vehicle toward the detected trailer to move the hitch ball of the vehicle toward the trailer coupler. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system at least in part maneuvers the vehicle along the determined path of travel to move the hitch ball of the vehicle toward the trailer coupler of the detected trailer.

Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera module configured for mounting at an in-cabin portion of a windshield of a vehicle and including a circuit board and a camera that views forward of the vehicle and through the windshield. The camera includes a CMOS imaging sensor array. A flexible coupling is provided between the camera and the circuit board. A data processor is operable to process image data captured by the CMOS imaging sensor array. Image data captured by the CMOS imaging sensor array is encoded by a data encoder chip. Captured image data captured that is encoded at the data encoder chip is carried as a data stream from the camera module to the data processor via a cable. Communication via the cable between the camera and the data processor is bidirectional. The data processor is located in the vehicle remote from the camera module.

Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) installed in a vehicle that connects via a plurality of coaxial cables of the vehicle with a plurality of vehicular cameras of the vehicle. Each camera is operable to capture image data. The coaxial cables (i) carry image data captured by the respective camera from the respective camera to the ECU, (ii) carries camera control data from the ECU to the respective camera and (iii) connects a DC power supply of the ECU to the respective camera for powering the respective camera. The camera control data is carried by the respective coaxial cable from the ECU to the respective camera at a control data carrier frequency that is lower than an image data carrier frequency at which image data captured by the respective camera is carried by the respective coaxial cable from the respective camera to the ECU.