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US 12,715,364 B2Granted
Video display device for synthesizing a bird's eye view video
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
InventorsMasaya Muramatsu, Yuki Yamamoto, Kohei Maejima
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Abstract
A video display device includes: a camera configured to capture video of surroundings of a vehicle; a storage unit configured to store the video captured by the camera as past video; a control unit configured to select video to be synthesized from real-time video captured by the camera and the past video stored in the storage unit based on a situation around the vehicle or a traveling state of the vehicle, and output bird's-eye view video looking down at the vehicle from a viewpoint above the vehicle, the bird's-eye view video being obtained by synthesizing the video selected; and a display unit configured to display the bird's-eye view video output by the control unit.
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A video display device comprising:
- a camera configured to capture video of surroundings of a vehicle;
- a storage unit configured to store the video captured by the camera as past video;
- a control unit configured to select video to be synthesized from real-time video captured by the camera and the past video stored in the storage unit based on a situation around the vehicle or a traveling state of the vehicle, and output bird's-eye view video looking down at the vehicle from a viewpoint above the vehicle, the bird's-eye view video being obtained by synthesizing the video selected, and the bird's-eye view video includes an icon indicating the vehicle,
- wherein the control unit outputs any one of first bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing the real-time video and second bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing at least the past video based on the situation around the vehicle, or outputs the second bird's-eye view video based on the traveling state of the vehicle;
- a display unit configured to display the bird's-eye view video output by the control unit;
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- a plurality of cameras including the camera, wherein the storage unit stores the past video captured by the plurality of cameras, and the control unit generates the first bird's-eye view video by synthesizing the real-time video captured by the plurality of cameras, and generates the second bird's-eye view video by synthesizing the past video, or by synthesizing the past video and the real-time video,
- wherein, when the traveling state of the vehicle is a moving state, the control unit generates an area ahead of travel direction of the vehicle in the second bird's-eye view video based on the real-time video representing ahead of the travel direction of the vehicle, and generates an area behind the travel direction of the vehicle in the second bird's-eye view video based on the past video representing behind the travel direction of the vehicle.
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A video display device comprising:
- a camera configured to capture video of surroundings of a vehicle;
- a storage unit configured to store the video captured by the camera as past video;
- a control unit configured to select video to be synthesized from real-time video captured by the camera and the past video stored in the storage unit based on a situation around the vehicle or a traveling state of the vehicle, and output bird's-eye view video looking down at the vehicle from a viewpoint above the vehicle, the bird's-eye view video being obtained by synthesizing the video selected;
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- a display unit configured to display the bird's-eye view video output by the control unit,
- wherein the control unit outputs any one of first bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing the real-time video and second bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing at least the past video based on the situation around the vehicle, or outputs the second bird's-eye view video based on the traveling state of the vehicle, and
- the control unit outputs the first bird's-eye view video when a moving object presents within an imaging range of the camera, and outputs the second bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing the past video when the moving object does not present within the imaging range of the camera.
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A video display device comprising:
- a plurality of cameras including a camera configured to capture video of surroundings of a vehicle;
- a storage unit configured to store the video captured by the camera as past video;
- a control unit configured to select video to be synthesized from real-time video captured by the camera and the past video stored in the storage unit based on a situation around the vehicle or a traveling state of the vehicle, and output bird's-eye view video looking down at the vehicle from a viewpoint above the vehicle, the bird's-eye view video being obtained by synthesizing the video selected;
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- a display unit configured to display the bird's-eye view video output by the control unit,
- wherein the control unit outputs any one of first bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing the real-time video and second bird's-eye view video obtained by synthesizing at least the past video based on the situation around the vehicle, or outputs the second bird's-eye view video based on the traveling state of the vehicle,
- the storage unit stores the past video captured by the plurality of cameras, and the control unit generates the first bird's-eye view video by synthesizing the real-time video captured by the plurality of cameras, and generates the second bird's-eye view video by synthesizing the past video, or by synthesizing the past video and the real-time video, and
- the control unit outputs the second bird's-eye view video, which is obtained by synthesizing the bird's-eye view video of a stationary object based on the past video with the first bird's-eye view video, in a case where the stationary object presents within an imaging range of the plurality of cameras and a display position of the stationary object overlaps with a synthesis boundary of the bird's-eye view video.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.