Parking assistance apparatus
OwnerKatsutoshi Yano, Jun Kawai +3inventors
InventorsKatsutoshi Yano, Jun Kawai, Toshiaki Gomi, Hiroshi Yamada, Takushi Fujita
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Abstract
A parking assistance apparatus includes: a generation unit that generates an overhead-view image as seen from a predetermined viewpoint, in accordance with an image captured by at least one image capturing apparatus mounted in a vehicle; and an output unit that superimposes, in the same coordinate system as the overhead-view image generated by the generation unit, an image of the vehicle on the overhead-view image and a predetermined figure at a position a predetermined distance away from the vehicle on the overhead-view image, and outputs the resulting overhead-view image to a display apparatus.
Claims18
A parking assistance apparatus comprising:
- a generation unit that generates an overhead-view image as seen from a predetermined viewpoint, in accordance with an image captured by at least one image capturing apparatus mounted in a vehicle;
- and
- an output unit that superimposes, in a same coordinate system as the overhead-view image generated by the generation unit, an image of the vehicle on the overhead-view image and a predetermined figure at a position a predetermined distance away from the vehicle on the overhead-view image, and outputs the resulting overhead-view image to a display apparatus.
A parking assistance system comprising:
- a parking assistance apparatus;
- at least one image capturing apparatus that captures an image of surroundings of a vehicle;
- and
- a display apparatus that displays an image output from the parking assistance apparatus,
- the parking assistance apparatus, the at least one image capturing apparatus, and the display apparatus being connected to one another via a network,
- the parking assistance apparatus includes
- a generation unit that generates an overhead-view image as seen from a predetermined viewpoint, in accordance with an image captured by the image capturing apparatus;
- and
- an output unit that superimposes, in a same coordinate system as the overhead-view image generated by the generation unit, an image of the vehicle on the overhead-view image and a predetermined figure at a position a predetermined distance away from the vehicle on the overhead-view image and outputs the resulting overhead-view image.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a computer to perform execution of at least:
- generating an overhead-view image as seen from a predetermined viewpoint, in accordance with an image captured by at least one image capturing apparatus mounted on a vehicle;
- and
- superimposing, in a same coordinate system as the overhead-view image, an image of the vehicle on the overhead-view image and a predetermined figure at a position a predetermined distance away from the vehicle on the overhead-view image and outputting the resulting overhead-view image to a display apparatus.
A method of assisting with parking comprising:
- generating an overhead-view image as seen from a predetermined viewpoint, in accordance with an image captured by at least one image capturing apparatus mounted on a vehicle;
- and
- superimposing, in the same coordinate system as the overhead-view image, an image of the vehicle on the overhead-view image and a predetermined figure at a position a predetermined distance away from the vehicle on the overhead-view image and outputting the resulting overhead-view image to a display apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.