Driver Assistance System Featuring Adaptive Processing of Image Data of the Surroundings
AssigneeConti Temic microelectronic GmbH
InventorMarkus FRIEBE
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Abstract
A driver assistance system for displaying an image of the surroundings for a vehicle having a vehicle camera which produce camera images of the surroundings of the vehicle, and having a data processing unit which combines the camera images produced by the vehicle cameras to form an image of the surroundings of the vehicle, wherein an associated region of interest (ROI) is processed adaptively for at least one object contained in the image of the surroundings.
Claims19
A driver assistance system for a vehicle, for displaying an image of surroundings of the vehicle, comprising:
- vehicle cameras configured to produce camera images of the surroundings of the vehicle;
- a data processing unit configured to combine the camera images produced by the vehicle cameras to form a combined image of the surroundings of the vehicle, and configured to adaptively filter a region of interest associated with at least one object contained in the combined image of the surroundings;
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- a display unit configured to display the combined image of the surroundings including the adaptively filtered region of interest.
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A method of processing and displaying image data of an image of surroundings of a vehicle in a driver assistance system of the vehicle, comprising the steps:
- (a) combining camera images, which are respectively produced by cameras of the vehicle, to form a combined image of the surroundings of the vehicle;
- (b) performing an adaptive filtering of a region of interest associated with at least one object contained in the combined image of the surroundings;
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- (c) displaying the combined image of the surroundings including the adaptively filtered region of interest on a display unit of the driver assistance system of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.