Electronic device for providing blind spot image through pillar of vehicle and operating method of the same
AssigneeThinkware Corporation
InventorTae Hyeong Kim
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides an electronic device for providing a blind spot video through a front pillar of a vehicle and an operating method of the same. In the present disclosure, the electronic device is configured to have pillar display modules provided to front pillars, respectively, to detect at least one of blind spot videos that are obscured by front pillars of a vehicle using at least one external video of the vehicle, and to display at least one of the blind spot videos through at least one of the pillar display modules. In an example embodiment, the electronic device may acquire the external video from a front camera module and side camera modules mounted to the vehicle to provide a surround view video.
Claims15
An electronic device mounted to a vehicle, the electronic device comprising:
- a front camera module configured to capture a front view video of the vehicle and side camera modules configured to capture side view videos of the vehicle, respectively;
- pillar display modules provided to front pillars of the vehicle inside the vehicle, respectively;
- and
- a processor configured to connect to the front camera module, the side camera modules, and the pillar display modules,
- wherein the processor is configured to
- synthesize the front view video and at least one of the side view videos to generate a synthesized video,
- detect at least one of blind spot videos that are obscured by the front pillars by cropping the synthesized video based on setting information including locations and dimensions of the pillar display modules, and
- display the detected at least one of blind spot videos on at least one of the pillar display modules,
- wherein the processor is configured to,
- activate the at least one of the pillar display modules to display the at least one of blind spot videos in response to a first user input to turn on a turn signal lamp of the vehicle, and
- deactivate the at least one of the pillar display modules to disable display of the at least one of blind spot videos in response to a second user input to turn off the turn signal lamp, and
- wherein the processor is configured to display reference information including a distance to an adjacent vehicle relative to the vehicle and/or a speed of the adjacent vehicle, detected based on an analysis result of the front view video and/or the at least one of the side view videos, together with the detected at least one of blind spot videos on the at least one of the pillar display modules.
An operating method of an electronic device mounted to a vehicle, the method comprising:
- synthesizing a front view video of the vehicle and at least one of side view videos of the vehicle to generate a synthesized video;
- detecting at least one of blind spot videos that are obscured by front pillars of the vehicle by cropping the synthesized video based on setting information including locations and dimensions of pillar display modules provided to the front pillars, respectively;
- and
- displaying the detected at least one of blind spot videos through at least one of the pillar display modules,
- wherein the displaying comprises
- activating the at least one of the pillar display modules to display the at least one of blind spot videos in response to a first user input to turn on a turn signal lamp of the vehicle, and
- deactivating the at least one of the pillar display modules to disable display of the at least one of blind spot videos in response to a second user input to turn off the turn signal lamp, and
- wherein the displaying comprises displaying reference information including a distance to an adjacent vehicle relative to the vehicle and/or a speed of the adjacent vehicle, detected based on an analysis result of the front view video and/or the at least one of the side view videos, together with the detected at least one of blind spot videos through the at least one of the pillar display modules.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.