US 2014/0152827 A1Published application

Vehicle periphery monitoring system

AssigneeAisin Seik Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKinji Yamamoto, Kazuya Watanabe

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Abstract

Provided is a vehicle periphery monitoring system that facilitates a driver's understanding about a photographing direction of an object which appears in an overlapping area of a bird's-eye view image generated from multiple photographed images. A displaying bird's-eye view image is generated by combining bird's-eye view image segments generated from the multiple photographed images photographed in a partially overlapping manner with superimposing mutually overlapped areas thereof. In displaying the displaying bird's-eye view image, a boundary-added bird's-eye view image formed by adding a boundary indicator to the overlapping area of the bird's-eye view image is displayed on a display unit; then, a merged superimposed image is displayed. The merged superimposed image is obtained by merging the overlapped areas of the bird's-eye view image according to a preset merger relationship.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle periphery monitoring system comprising:

a bird's-eye view image generation section generating bird's-eye view image segments from multiple photographed images photographed to be partially overlapped in a vehicle circumference direction;
a boundary indicator addition section adding a boundary indicator indicating a boundary area of the bird's-eye view image segments adjacent each other to an overlapped area of the bird's-eye view image segments;
a merger section generating a merged overlapped image by merging mutually overlapped areas of the bird's-eye view image segments according to a preset merger relationship;
a displaying bird's-eye view image generation section generating a merged bird's-eye view image containing a boundary-added bird's-eye view image having the boundary indicator and the merged overlapped image as a displaying bird's-eye view image;
a displaying section displaying the displaying bird's-eye view image;
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a displaying image determination section displaying the merged bird's-eye view image in the displaying section after displaying the boundary-added bird's-eye view image therein.

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Application: 14/131,475Filed 12 Jul 2012
Priority: JP 2011-16348226 Jul 2011
Published: 5 Jun 2014
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Classification7 codes

B60R 1/27
With a predetermined field of view: providing all-round vision, e.g. using omnidirectional cameras
G06T 3/4038
Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting: image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
G06V 20/56
Context or environment of the image: exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
B60R 2300/607
Characterised by monitoring and displaying vehicle exterior scenes from a transformed perspective: from a bird's eye viewpoint

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