Abstract: A method for rectifying a camera image includes: receiving a plurality of distorted pixels of a distorted camera image; receiving a compressed rectifying rule, via an interface; and performing a decompression of the compressed rectifying rule, in order to obtain a decompressed rectifying rule for rectifying the distorted camera image. A plurality of rectified pixels of a distorted camera image is determined from the plurality of distorted pixels, using the decompressed rectifying rule.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining the axis of rotation of a vehicle wheel in which a light pattern is projected at least onto the wheel during the rotation of the wheel and the light pattern reflected from the wheel is detected by a calibrated imaging sensor system and analyzed in an analyzer device. Accurate and robust measurement of the axis of rotation and, optionally, of the axis and wheel geometry, in particular when the vehicle is passing by, is achieved in that a 3D point cloud with respect to the wheel is determined in the analysis and a parametric surface model of the wheel is adapted thereto; normal vectors of the wheel are calculated for different rotational positions of the wheel for obtaining the axes of rotation; and the axis of rotation vector is calculated as the axis of rotation from the spatial movement of the normal vector of the wheel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optically measuring an undercarriage and/or for dynamically testing undercarriage components of a motor vehicle (1). At least one wheel (2) and/or at least one section of the vehicle (1) is illuminated with a light pattern (15) of structured light by means of an illumination device (11), and the reflected light (4?) is received by means of an imaging sensor unit (12, 13) and evaluated in an evaluation unit (16). The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method. Even in suboptimal light conditions in the surrounding environments, a robust measurement is achieved because the structured light is emitted by the illumination device in a narrow band in a specified narrow emission wavelength range, and because the light is likewise detected by means of the sensor unit (12, 13) in a receiving wavelength range corresponding to the emission wavelength range and is evaluated in the evaluation unit (16), wherein foreign light influences are removed.

Abstract: An optical unit, having a sensor device in particular, including a housing enclosing same, a radiation-sensitive sensor surface, designed for detecting electromagnetic radiation from a frequency section, having a predefined width and position, of the spectral range including the near infrared range and/or the visible range, and a lens system. In order to reduce the cost and complexity for mounting a lens on the housing and to obtain a uniform housing surface on the object side, a part of the lens system acting as a lens on the object side or the entire lens system of the unit is designed as an integral component of the housing of the unit.

Abstract: A method for checking a vibration damper of a motor vehicle in the installed state includes setting start values of the damping constant kA, the spring rate cA, and the body mass mA for a wheel of a motor vehicle; inducing a vertical vibration of the motor vehicle with the aid of a defined excitation sRreal; determining the theoretical body vibration excursion sAmodel; optically detecting the positions of the wheel and the body shell of the motor vehicle at a plurality of detection instants during the vibration; minimizing the error function formed from the deviations between the theoretical body vibration excursion sAmodel and the observed body vibration excursion sAreal at the detection instants, and determining the damping constant kA, the spring rate cA, and the body mass mA therefrom; and determining the damping measure ? of the vibration damper.

Abstract: A device and a method are proposed for monitoring, tracking and determining at least one calibration parameter of the geometrical calibration of at least one image sensor, the at least one image sensor monitoring a scene that stays the same in parts. In one exemplary embodiment, the at least one image sensor is used for monitoring the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A method for detecting a person in a space includes at least one depth sensor producing spatial data about the space to be monitored, at least one sub-model, which is sub-dividable into further sub-models being used for at least one selected body part of a human, the spatial data being used to adapt the sub-models, the adaptation being checked by position parameters between the sub-models of different body parts, and the person being recognized using a complete model made up of the checked sub-models.

Abstract: A device and a method are proposed for monitoring, tracking and determining at least one calibration parameter of the geometrical calibration of at least one image sensor, the at least one image sensor monitoring a scene that stays the same in parts. In one exemplary embodiment, the at least one image sensor is used for monitoring the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A video surveillance system has at least one camera for monitoring a surveillance zone, a storage for storing floor plan data of the surveillance zone, a display for displaying video images from the detection field of the camera, a unit for projecting the floor plan data into the video images, a unit for superimposing floor plan data with structures in the video images, and a unit for deriving camera parameters based on the superimposition of floor plan data with structures in the video image, and a control method for a video surveillance system is provided.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for detecting a person in a space; at least one depth sensor producing spatial data about the space to be monitored; at least one sub-model which is subdividable into further sub-models being used for at least one selected body part of a human; the spatial data being used to adapt the sub-models; the adaptation being checked by position parameters between the sub-models of different body parts, and the person being recognized using a complete model made up of the checked sub-models.

Abstract: A method and a device for calibrating at least one image sensor system, which is located at (on and/or in and/or on top of) a motor vehicle, by the use of at least one calibrating object, for the calibration, and for determining the alignment of the at least one image sensor system with respect to the geometric travel axis of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A method and a device for calibrating at least one image sensor system, which is located at (on and/or in and/or on top of) a motor vehicle, by the use of at least one calibrating object, for the calibration, and for determining the alignment of the at least one image sensor system with respect to the geometric travel axis of the motor vehicle.