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AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsKunio Nobori, Masamichi Nakagawa, Satoshi Sato
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A synthesized image showing the situation around a vehicle is produced from images taken with cameras capturing the surroundings of the vehicle and presented to a display. A position computation section computes position information and the reliability of the position information, for a plurality of points in the camera images. An image variable-synthesis section produces a first synthesized image from the camera images using the position information. An image fixed-synthesis section produces a second synthesized image by road surface projection, for example, without use of the ,..position information. A synthesis scheme selection section selects either one of the first and second synthesized images according to the reliability as the synthesized image to be presented.
A vehicle surroundings monitoring device for producing a synthesized image showing the situation around a vehicle from images taken with a camera capturing the surroundings of the vehicle and presenting the synthesized image, the device comprising:
An image production method for producing a synthesized image showing the situation around a vehicle from images taken with a camera capturing the surroundings of the vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:
A program enabling a computer to execute a method for producing a synthesized image showing the situation around a vehicle from images taken with a camera capturing the surroundings of the vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:
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