Device for monitoring the vicinities of a vehicle
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorRyuji Sakata
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Abstract
A device for monitoring the vicinity of a vehicle includes a display unit, cameras installed on the doors of the vehicle to take images of the conditions in the vicinities of the vehicle and a display control processing device which instructs the cameras to take images of the conditions in the vicinities of the vehicle and displays, on the display unit, the images of the vicinities of the vehicle taken by the cameras. The device for monitoring the vicinities of the vehicle further includes a door opening/closing detector for detecting the opening/closing state of the doors of the vehicle and a halting device for halting the processing of the display control processing device when it is detected by the door opening/closing detector that the doors of the vehicle are opened.
Claims15
A device for monitoring the vicinity of a vehicle comprising:
- a display unit;
- cameras installed on the doors of the vehicle to take images of the conditions in the vicinities of the vehicle, and
- display control processing means which instructs the cameras to take images of the conditions in the vicinities of the vehicle and displays, on the display unit, the images of the vicinities of the vehicle taken by the cameras;
- the device for monitoring the vicinities of the vehicle further comprising:
- door opening/closing detector means for detecting the opening/closing state of the doors of the vehicle;
- and
- halting means for halting the processing of the display control processing means when it is detected by the door opening/closing detector means that the doors of the vehicle are opened.
A device for monitoring the vicinity of a vehicle comprising:
- a display unit;
- cameras installed on the doors of the vehicle to take images of the conditions in the vicinities of the vehicle;
- and
- display control processing means which instructs the cameras to take images of the conditions in the vicinities of the vehicle, forms bird's eye images based on the images of the vicinities of the vehicle taken by the cameras, and displays, on the display unit, the thus formed bird's eye images;
- the device for monitoring the vicinities of the vehicle further comprising:
- door opening/closing detector means for detecting the opening/closing state of the doors of the vehicle;
- and
- halting means for halting the processing of the display control processing means when it is detected by the door opening/closing detector means that the doors of the vehicle are opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.