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US 10,501,015 B2Granted
Extended view method, apparatus, and system
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsChang-soon Park, Young-jun Hong
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Abstract
Provided is an extended view method and apparatus, the method including generating a virtual viewpoint image of a vehicle based on a surrounding view of the vehicle, generating an extended virtual viewpoint image based on the virtual viewpoint image of the vehicle and a received virtual viewpoint image of another vehicle, and displaying the extended virtual viewpoint image to a user.
Claims25
A surround viewing method, the method comprising:
- generating, by a vehicle, a first image of the vehicle based on a surrounding image of the vehicle;
- receiving a second image generated by another vehicle on a road;
- determining a location relationship between the vehicle and the another vehicle;
- generating an extended image using the first image and the second image;
- and
- outputting the generated extended image,
- wherein the generating of the extended image comprises:
- selecting, based on the location relationship, an overlapping area that appears in both the first image and the second image, and
- generating the extended image to include the overlapping area.
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A surround viewing method performed by a first vehicle, the method comprising:
- generating a first image of a vehicle, for a surrounding view of the first vehicle;
- receiving a second image generated by another vehicle on a road for a surrounding view of the other vehicle;
- determining a location relationship between the vehicle and the other vehicle;
- determining, based on the location relationship, an overlapping area that appears in both the first image and the second image;
- adjusting at least one of an image size of the first image, an image size of the second image, a position of a virtual viewpoint of the first image, or a position of a virtual viewpoint of the second image, to respectively generate an adjusted first image of the vehicle and/or an adjusted second image of the another vehicle;
- generating an extended image including the overlapping area by combining one of the first image or the adjusted first image with one of the second image or the adjusted second image, based on a result of the adjusting;
- outputting the generated extended image;
- and
- transmitting the generated image of the vehicle or the adjusted image of the vehicle to the other vehicle.
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A surround viewing apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- an image generator configured to generate a first image of a vehicle based on a surrounding image of the vehicle;
- a receiver configured to receive a second image generated by another vehicle on a road;
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- an extended image generator configured to
- determine a location relationship between the vehicle and the another vehicle;
- create an extended image using the first image and the second image,
- select, based on the location relationship, an overlapping area that appears in both the first image and the second image, and
- generate the extended image to include the overlapping area;
- and
- a display configured to display the generated extended image.
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