Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090010567 | Image display apparatus and image display system for vehicle - If a display mode is set to a narrow angle enlargement image mode, an enlargement image area is inputted via a touch panel. A transformation is made to compress an image of a not-enlargement image area other than the enlargement image area, and a narrow angle enlargement image is generated to enable simultaneously displaying, as a narrow angle enlargement image, (i) the enlarged image in the enlargement image area and (ii) the compressed image in the not-enlargement image area. When a warning target is detected, a corresponding image area is enlarged. An audio alarm is outputted via a speaker. Further, a new narrow angle enlargement image is generated so as to merge the initial narrow angle enlargement image with an image of enlarging the image area of the warning target. A display window including the new narrow angle enlargement image is then displayed in a display device. | 01-08-2009 |
20090059006 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus permits a user to readily recognize a current state of an angle of view. When an angle of view is switched from a wide-angle to a narrow-angle, range display is performed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. Range display includes a narrow-angle image frame formed with lines indicating a border of an image displayed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. After the predetermined time, a narrow-angle image is displayed and the range display is no longer displayed. The range display allows a user to readily recognize that the wide-angle image has been switched to the narrow-angle image by recognizing to what area in a pre-switching wide angle of view image the post-switching narrow-angle image corresponds. | 03-05-2009 |
20090066842 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus executes distortion compensation based on distortion compensation information associated with desired distortion compensation and an angle of view of an image currently being displayed on a display device. Distortion compensation can be performed stepwise without use of any other distortion compensation information until a distortion compensated state is realized based on distortion compensation information stored in a memory unit. Distortion compensation based on a level received by an operating unit is provided. An image having undergone distortion compensation can be displayed. The number of distortion compensation information items need not be increased proportionally to the number of levels for a magnitude of distortion compensation to be implemented since distortion compensation can be stepwise implemented from the current distortion compensation until a magnitude of distortion compensation is realized based on specific distortion compensation information. | 03-12-2009 |
20090299684 | Method for calibrating cameras installed on vehicle - A method for calibrating vehicle cameras is simplified by providing painted patterns on a road surface and by capturing those patterns by the cameras to be calibrated. According to a predefined positional relationship of the cameras with the painted patterns, captured images of the painted patterns are bird's-eye converted and matched with reference to calculate camera positions in a vehicle, thereby enabling an automatic calibration of camera directions and the like. | 12-03-2009 |
20100201818 | Vehicle periphery displaying apparatus - A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an imaging device for capturing a periphery image; a storage medium for storing history data comprising one of the periphery image and information on an object-in-periphery, the storage medium pre-storing a vehicle image; a display screen having a real-time displaying part for displaying thereon the periphery image with distortion of the periphery image being uncorrected, and a history displaying part for displaying thereon the vehicle image and a history image being produced based on the history data; and a drawing section configured to superimposingly draw the vehicle image and the history image provided with the distortion that the periphery image has, such that the object-in-periphery shown in the history image is continuously connected to that shown in the periphery image. | 08-12-2010 |
20100245574 | Vehicle periphery display device and method for vehicle periphery image - An imaging unit photographs an image of a periphery of the vehicle. An object detection unit obtains image information related to a brightness or a color of the image and position information on the obtained image from the image and detects object from the image information according to a specific feature of the image. A storing unit prestores a vehicle image and history data, which include the image information associated with the position information. A graphic unit overlaps the vehicle image and an image produced according to the history data and converts the overlapped image to be viewed from a predetermined viewpoint. A peripheral image display region indicates a present periphery of the vehicle. A history display region is adjacent to the peripheral image display region for indicating the converted image and the detected object at a position according to the position information. | 09-30-2010 |
20110032374 | Image correction apparatus and method and method of making transformation map for the same - An image correction apparatus, an image correction method and a transformation map making method are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging device, a memory section, a corrected image creation section and a display device. The imaging device has an optical axis inclined upward or downward with respect to a ground surface, and captures an image. The corrected image creation section transforms the captured image into a corrected image in accordance with a transformation map stored in the memory section, thereby making a correction on inclination of a display object with respect to a vertical direction. The display device displays the corrected image. | 02-10-2011 |
20110066329 | DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE - A driving support device includes: an in-vehicle camera for shooting an image toward a driving direction of the vehicle; a display device for displaying the image; a steering wheel angle detector for detecting a steering wheel angle of the vehicle; and a display controller for calculating an expected driving track corresponding to a vehicle width and the steering wheel angle and for controlling the display device to display the expected driving track overlapped on the image. The display controller calculates one steering wheel line, which has a curvature changeable in accordance with the steering wheel angle. The display controller controls the display device to display the one steering wheel line at a center of the expected driving track in a vehicle width direction. | 03-17-2011 |
20110301846 | VEHICLE PERIMETER MONITOR - A vehicle perimeter monitor includes: a shooting device mounted on a vehicle for shooting an image of an outside of the vehicle; a controller including a detector and a generator, wherein the detector sets a detection line in a shot image, and detects a change amount of brightness of a picture cell on the detection line so that the detector detects movement of a moving object along with the detection line, and wherein the generator generates information display according to a detection result of the moving object; and a display for displaying the shot image and the information display. | 12-08-2011 |