Onboard image generator
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsBingchen WANG, Hirohiko YANAGAWA
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Abstract
An onboard image generator is provided. The onboard image generator includes a first camera capturing an image in front of or behind a vehicle, and a second camera and a third camera capturing images on right and left sides of the vehicle, respectively. Based on the images captured by the second and third cameras, a first viewpoint converter generates a set of symmetrical viewpoint conversion images shaped viewed toward the front or rear of the vehicle from a pair of parallel virtual viewpoints. Based on the image captured by the first camera, a center image generator generates a center image. A combined image generator generates a combined image by arranging the center image in a center of and arranging the set of viewpoint conversion images besides the center image.
Claims6
An onboard image generator comprising:
- a first camera that captures an image in front of or behind a vehicle in a travel direction of the vehicle;
- a second camera and a third camera that capture images on right and left sides of the vehicle, respectively;
- a first viewpoint conversion unit that, based on the images captured by the second camera and the third camera, generates a set of viewpoint conversion images shaped symmetrical to each other and viewed toward the front or rear of the vehicle in the travel direction of the vehicle from a pair of virtual viewpoints having parallel visual axes that are different than visual axes of the second camera and the third camera;
- a center image generation unit that, based on the image captured by the first camera, generates a center image used for generation of a combined image;
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- a combined image generation unit that generates the combined image by arranging the center image generated by the center image generation unit in a center of the combined image and arranging the set of viewpoint conversion images generated by the first viewpoint conversion unit besides the center image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.