Field watch apparatus
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsMakiko Tauchi, Sei Iguchi, Asako Nagata
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Abstract
A field watch apparatus for use in a subject vehicle acquires a road image from a roadside capture unit located around the subject vehicle on a road and, based on the acquired image, generates an overhead view of a field around the subject vehicle in an intuitively recognizable manner by including a distant surrounding vehicle in the view, thereby providing a precisely understandable view of the field around the subject vehicle for the ease of satisfactorily identifying the distant surrounding vehicle without being compromised by the position of the roadside capture unit.
Claims21
A field watch apparatus for use in a subject vehicle comprising:
- a road image acquisition unit capable of acquiring a road image that includes another vehicle around the subject vehicle from a roadside capture unit disposed in surroundings of the subject vehicle while the subject vehicle is traveling on a road;
- an overhead view generation unit capable of generating an overhead view of the subject vehicle with a viewpoint from above the subject vehicle, wherein the overhead view of the subject vehicle is generated as a view of a real image of a nearby area of the subject vehicle by composing the plural road images respectively captured in different perspectives of the plural roadside capture units with viewpoint shifting;
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- a display unit disposed in the subject vehicle and capable of displaying the overhead view of the subject vehicle, wherein a position of the subject vehicle is represented in an identifiable manner in the overhead view.
Afield watch apparatus for use in a subject vehicle comprising:
- a road image acquisition unit capable of acquiring a road image that includes another vehicle around the subject vehicle from a roadside capture unit disposed in surroundings of the subject vehicle while the subject vehicle is traveling on a road;
- an overhead view generation unit capable of generating an overhead view of the subject vehicle with a viewpoint from above the subject vehicle, wherein the overhead view of the subject vehicle is generated as a view of a real image of a nearby area of the subject vehicle by composing the plural road images respectively captured in different perspectives of the plural roadside capture units with viewpoint shifting;
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- a display unit disposed in the subject vehicle and capable of displaying the overhead view of the subject vehicle, wherein a position of the subject vehicle is represented in an identifiable manner in the overhead view, wherein
- the roadside capture unit is a vehicle camera disposed on another vehicle traveling around the subject vehicle, and
- the road image acquisition unit is the vehicle camera on the another vehicle within a predetermined distance from the traveling subject vehicle that provides the road image for generation of the overhead view of the subject vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.