Driving assistant system and method
AssigneesHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
InventorKANG-BIN WANG
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Abstract
A driving assistant system comprises a plurality of cameras configured to capture images around a vehicle, a monitor capable of displaying the images, and a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) connected to the plurality of cameras. The plurality of cameras comprising a first camera attached to a front central portion of the vehicle, a second camera attached to a first rearview mirror of the vehicle, a third camera attached to a second rearview mirror of the vehicle, and a fourth camera attached to a rear central portion of the vehicle. The FPGA is capable of combining the images into a panorama image and sending the panorama image to the monitor which displays the panorama image. The present disclosure further discloses a driving assistant method based upon the above driving assistant system.
Claims13
A driving assistant system comprising:
- a plurality of cameras configured to capture images around a vehicle, the plurality of cameras comprising a first camera attached to a front central portion of the vehicle, a second camera attached to a first rearview mirror of the vehicle, a third camera attached to a second rearview mirror of the vehicle, and a fourth camera attached to a rear central portion of the vehicle;
- a monitor capable of displaying the images;
- and
- a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) connected to the plurality of cameras, wherein the FPGA combines the images into a panorama image and sends the panorama image to the monitor to display the panorama image.
A driving assistant method, comprising following steps:
- utilizing a plurality of cameras to capture images around a vehicle in different positions and directions;
- the plurality of cameras comprising a first camera attached to a front central portion of the vehicle, a second camera attached to a first rearview mirror of the vehicle, a third camera attached to a second rearview mirror of the vehicle, and a fourth camera attached to a rear central portion of the vehicle;
- combining the images into a panorama image by a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA);
- and
- displaying the panorama image which shows traffic conditions around the vehicle.
The driving assistant method of claim 9, wherein each of the images is a fish-eye image, and the FPGA is converts the fish-eye image into a plane image before combining the images.
The driving assistant method of claim 10, further comprising utilizing a analog-to-digital (A/D) converting module to convert analog picture signals of the image to digital picture signals before converting the fish-eye image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.