Driving assistance apparatus
First Claim
1. A driving assistance apparatus for displaying and guiding a peripheral condition of a vehicle in an easily understanding manner, comprising:
- a camera mounted on a peripheral portion of the vehicle;
an virtual observing point converting unit which converts an image picked up by the camera into an image viewed from a virtual observing point;
a image synthesizing unit which synthesizes the images viewed from a virtual observing point to display a peripheral condition of the vehicle;
an obstacle sensing unit which senses presence of an obstacle and which measures at least one of a distance from the own vehicle up to an obstacle and a direction of the obstacle; and
a safety area predicting unit which predicts a safety area of the peripheral portion of the own vehicle, in which the obstacle is not present, based upon the information acquired by the obstacle sensing unit.
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Abstract
A driving assistance apparatus includes: cameras; a plurality of virtual observing point converting unit; an image synthesizing unit for synthesizing image information supplied from this virtual observing point converting unit; an obstacle sensing unit such as an ultrasonic-wave sensor and a millimeter-wave radar; a safety area predicting unit; and a safety area superposing unit. Then, the safety area predicting unit predicts such a safety area where an obstacle is not present based upon both a distance “d1” and an approximate direction, which are obtained from the obstacle sensing unit. Also, the safety area superposing unit superposes the safety area predicted by the safety area predicting unit on an image synthesized by way of cameras to display the synthesized image superposed with the safety area.
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8 Claims
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1. A driving assistance apparatus for displaying and guiding a peripheral condition of a vehicle in an easily understanding manner, comprising:
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a camera mounted on a peripheral portion of the vehicle;
an virtual observing point converting unit which converts an image picked up by the camera into an image viewed from a virtual observing point;
a image synthesizing unit which synthesizes the images viewed from a virtual observing point to display a peripheral condition of the vehicle;
an obstacle sensing unit which senses presence of an obstacle and which measures at least one of a distance from the own vehicle up to an obstacle and a direction of the obstacle; and
a safety area predicting unit which predicts a safety area of the peripheral portion of the own vehicle, in which the obstacle is not present, based upon the information acquired by the obstacle sensing unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 7)
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3. A driving assistance apparatus for displaying and guiding a peripheral condition of a vehicle in an easily understanding manner, comprising:
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a camera mounted on a peripheral portion of the vehicle;
an virtual observing point converting unit which converts an image picked up by the camera into an image viewed from a virtual observing point;
a image synthesizing unit which synthesizes the images viewed from a virtual observing point to display a peripheral condition of the vehicle;
an obstacle sensing unit for measuring a distance from the own vehicle up to an obstacle and a direction of the obstacle, and also for sensing presence of the obstacle by way of a sensor;
an obstacle sensing unit which senses presence of an obstacle and which measures at least one of a distance from the own vehicle up to an obstacle and a direction of the obstacle; and
an obstacle area superposing unit which superposes the obstacle area on the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit for display the superposed area. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 8)
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