Image generation apparatus
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorKenichi Oonishi
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Abstract
An image generation apparatus mounted to a vehicle to generate a display image to be displayed on a display device is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to: acquire a video signal of a main image that is generated by an in-vehicle apparatus as being smaller in the number of pixels than the display image; generate a complement image that compensates for a difference in the number of pixels between the display image and the main image; and combine the main image and the complement image, thereby generating the display image in which the main image and the complement image are placed side by side.
Claims4
An image generation apparatus mounted to a vehicle and configured to generate a display image, the image generation apparatus comprising:
- a display device provided to face a passenger of the vehicle to display the display image;
- a video acquisition portion configured to acquire, from an in-vehicle apparatus mounted to the vehicle, a video signal of a main image that is generated by the in-vehicle apparatus as being smaller in the number of pixels than the display image;
- a drawing portion configured to generate a complement image that compensates for a difference in the number of pixels between the display image and the main image;
- a combining portion configured to generate the display image in which the main image and the complement image are placed side by side, by combining
- the main image, which is based on the video signal acquired by the video acquisition portion, and
- the complement image, which is generated by the drawing portion;
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- an output portion configured to output a video signal of the display image to the display device to cause the display device to display the display image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.