US 11,702,007 B2
System and method for vehicle image collection
Chao Yan, Beijing (CN); Ming Wang, Beijing (CN); and Jie Sun, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Filed by Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/452,201.
Application 17/452,201 is a continuation of application No. 16/250,549, filed on Jan. 17, 2019, granted, now 11,155,207.
Claims priority of application No. 201711193190.3 (CN), filed on Nov. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0041104 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60R 1/00 (2022.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 1/00 (2013.01) [B60R 11/04 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01); B60R 2300/105 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23222 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle side image capturing system, comprising:
a controller located on a vehicle, a plurality of cameras located on the vehicle, and a light sensor located on the vehicle,
wherein the plurality of cameras and the light sensor are connected to the controller, and
wherein the controller is configured to:
receive an illumination intensity from the light sensor;
select one of the plurality of cameras that is adapted to the illumination intensity as a target camera;
activate, when the target camera is different from a currently operating camera, the target camera;
set a value of a counter to an initial value upon activating the target camera;
establish a video link between the controller and the target camera;
determine whether the video link between the controller and the target camera has been established successfully;
determine whether the counter has reached a predetermined threshold value in response to determining that the video link between the controller and the target camera has not been established successfully;
deactivate the target camera and continue using the currently operating camera in response to determining that the counter has reached the predetermined threshold value;
establish the video link between the controller and the target camera again in response to determining that the counter has not reached the predetermined threshold value; and
increment the counter by an increment value.