# US 2014/0152827 A1 · Vehicle periphery monitoring system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0152827 A1 - Document ID: US20140152827A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/131,475 - Filed: 2012-07-12 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2011-07-26 - Assignees: Aisin Seik Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Kinji Yamamoto; Kazuya Watanabe - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140152827A1 ## CPC - B60R 1/27: providing all-round vision, e.g. using omnidirectional cameras - G06T 3/4038: Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images - G06V 20/56: exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle - B60R 2300/607: from a bird's eye viewpoint - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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; and 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the boundary-added bird's-eye view image is generated as the overlapped area in the boundary-added bird's-eye view image appropriates the overlapped area of one bird's-eye view image segment; and the merged bird's-eye view image is generated as this overlapped area is replaced by the merged overlapped image generated by the merger section. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the displaying image determination section is configured to display the merged bird's-eye view image after lapse of a period set after displaying of the boundary-added bird's-eye view image in the displaying section. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein in a display switchover process from displaying of the boundary-added bird's-eye view image to displaying of the merged bird's-eye view image as the displaying bird's-eye view image, displaying is switched over to displaying of the merged overlapped image progressively and concentrically from vicinity of the vehicle. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein in a display switchover process from displaying of the boundary-added bird's-eye view image to displaying of the merged bird's-eye view image as the displaying bird's-eye view image, displaying is switched over sequentially from displaying of an area of the boundary indicator to displaying of the merged overlapped image. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the boundary indicator is displayed with emphasis in a display switchover process from displaying of the boundary-added bird's-eye view image to displaying of the merged bird's-eye view image as the displaying bird's-eye view image. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein in the boundary-added bird's-eye view image, no merger process is effected for the overlapped area where the multiple bird's-eye view image segments are overlapped with each other. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the boundary-added bird's-eye view image is displayed after startup of the vehicle periphery monitoring system. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the merged bird's-eye view image is added with a boundary indicator. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 9, wherein the boundary indicator added to the merged bird's-eye view image is semitransparent. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 9, wherein the boundary indicator added to the merged bird's-eye view image is shorter than the boundary indicator added to the displaying bird's-eye view image. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 9, wherein the boundary indicator added to the merged bird's-eye view image is a dotted line. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 9, wherein the boundary indicator added to the merged bird's-eye view image is thinner than the boundary indicator added to the displaying bird's-eye view image. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The vehicle periphery monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the merged bird's-eye view image is added with a boundary indicator in a displaying form different from a displaying form of the boundary indicator of the displaying bird's-eye view image.