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US 10,538,200 B2Granted
Work vehicle and image displaying method for work vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorYushi Matsuzaki
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Abstract
A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, cameras, circuitry, and a display. The vehicle body has a peripheral area surrounding the vehicle body and a work equipment attachable to the vehicle body. The peripheral area is divided to allocated areas. The cameras are provided on the vehicle body to capture images of the allocated areas, respectively. The circuitry is configured to convert the images captured by the cameras to partial overhead images via view-point transformation, respectively. The circuitry is configured to composite the partial overhead images based on an image composition pattern that is changeable to produce a peripheral overhead image of the peripheral area. The display is to display the peripheral overhead image.
Claims18
A work vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a peripheral area surrounding the vehicle body and selected work equipment attachable to the vehicle body, the peripheral area being divided to allocated areas, the selected work equipment being alternatively selected from a plurality of work equipment;
- cameras provided on the vehicle body to capture images of the allocated areas, respectively;
- a work equipment type input interface via which a type of the selected work equipment is to be input;
- circuitry configured to
- convert the images captured by the cameras to partial overhead images via view-point transformation, respectively,
- composite the partial overhead images based on an image composition pattern to produce a peripheral overhead image of the peripheral area, the image composition pattern being generated according to the selected work equipment, and
- change the image composition pattern based on the type of the selected work equipment;
- and
- a display to display the peripheral overhead image.
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A work vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a peripheral area surrounding the vehicle body and selected work equipment attachable to the vehicle body, the peripheral area being divided to allocated areas, the selected work equipment being alternatively selected from a plurality of work equipment;
- cameras provided on the vehicle body to capture images of the allocated areas, respectively;
- a work equipment type input interface via which a type of the selected work equipment is to be input;
- conversion means for converting the images captured by the cameras to partial overhead images via view-point transformation, respectively;
- composition means for compositing the partial overhead images based on an image composition pattern to produce a peripheral overhead image of the peripheral area, the image composition pattern being generated according to the selected work equipment, the image composition pattern being changed based on the type of the selected work equipment;
- and
- a display to display the peripheral overhead image.
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An image displaying method for a work vehicle, comprising:
- inputting a type of work equipment attached to the work vehicle;
- capturing images of allocated areas to which a peripheral area surrounding a vehicle body of the work vehicle and the work equipment is divided;
- converting the images to partial overhead images via view-point transformation, respectively;
- compositing the partial overhead images based on an image composition pattern that is changeable to produce a peripheral overhead image of the peripheral area;
- changing the image composition pattern based on the type of the work equipment;
- and
- displaying the peripheral overhead image in a display.
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A work vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a peripheral area surrounding the vehicle body and work equipment attachable to the vehicle body, the peripheral area being divided to allocated areas;
- cameras provided on the vehicle body to capture images of the allocated areas, respectively;
- a work equipment type input interface via which a type of the work equipment is to be input;
- circuitry configured to
- convert the images captured by the cameras to partial overhead images via view-point transformation, respectively, and
- composite the partial overhead images based on an image composition pattern that is changeable to produce a peripheral overhead image of the peripheral area, the image composition pattern being changed based on the type of the work equipment;
- and
- a display to display the peripheral overhead image.
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A work vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a peripheral area surrounding the vehicle body and work equipment attachable to the vehicle body, the peripheral area being divided to allocated areas;
- cameras provided on the vehicle body to capture images of the allocated areas, respectively;
- a work equipment type input interface via which a type of the work equipment is to be input;
- conversion means for converting the images captured by the cameras to partial overhead images via view-point transformation, respectively;
- composition means for compositing the partial overhead images based on an image composition pattern that is changeable to produce a peripheral overhead image of the peripheral area, the image composition pattern being changed based on the type of the work equipment;
- and
- a display to display the peripheral overhead image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.