A low-cost VIS-NIR true color night vision video system based on a wide dynamic range CMOS imager

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 273-278

  Hertel, Dirk ^a   Marechal, Herve ^a   Tefera, Daniel A ^b   Fan, Wensheng ^c   Hicks, Rich ^a  

^a Vision Sensing   (United States)

^b Sensata Technologies Japan Ltd   (Japan)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYER PATTERN; CMOS IMAGERS; COLOR CHANNELS; COLOR FILTER ARRAYS; COLOR INFORMATION; COLORED LIGHT; DARK SCENES; DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM; GRAY SCALE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IMAGE CAPTURES; LOW-COST SOLUTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NATURAL COLORS; NEAR-INFRARED RANGE; NIGHT VISION; NIGHT VISION SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL RANGE; TRAFFIC LIGHT; TRUE COLORS; VIDEO SYSTEMS; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; TRAFFIC SIGNS; VEHICLES; VISION;

COLOR;

EID: 70449565326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVS.2009.5164290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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