Mobile Body Surroundings Display Method and Mobile Body Surroundings Display Apparatus
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Norimasa Kishi
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Abstract
A mobile body surroundings display method is performed by a mobile body surroundings display apparatus that includes an image capturing element that acquires surroundings information on a mobile body by image capturing, a controller that creates a captured image using the surroundings information and a virtual image representing a situation around the mobile body, and a display that displays the virtual image. The method detects an attention-required range around the mobile body, creates a captured image of the attention-required range, and displays the captured image of the attention-required range on the display.
Claims7
A mobile body surroundings display method performed by a mobile body surroundings display apparatus including an image capturing element that is mounted on a mobile body and acquires surroundings information by image capturing, a controller that creates a captured image using the surroundings information and a virtual image representing a situation around the mobile body, and a display that displays the virtual image, the method comprising:
- dividing the virtual image around the mobile body into a plurality of parts, calculating a level of attention for each of regions corresponding to the divided parts of the virtual image, and detecting a region the level of attention of which is equal to or above a predetermined value, as an attention-required range;
- creating the captured image of the attention-required range;
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- displaying the attention-required range by use of the captured image.
A mobile body surroundings display apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing element that is mounted on a mobile body and acquires surroundings information by image capturing;
- a controller that creates a captured image using the surroundings information and a virtual image representing a situation around the mobile body;
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- a display that displays the virtual image, wherein
- the controller divides the virtual image around the mobile body into a plurality of parts, calculates a level of attention for each of regions corresponding to the divided parts of the virtual image, detects a region the level of attention of which is equal to or above a predetermined value, as an attention-required range, creates the captured image of the attention-required range detected, and displays the captured image of the attention-required range on the display.
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