Vehicle surroundings monitoring system and method for adjusting the same
First Claim
1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring system comprising:
- a plurality of cameras, including at least a first and a second camera, for capturing images of surroundings of a vehicle; and
an image processing portion that receives, as input, images captured by the plurality of cameras, synthesizes partial images obtained from these camera images, and displays a synthesized image on a display device;
wherein in the synthesized image, a first partial image according to the first camera and a second partial image according to the second camera are arranged adjacent to one another; and
the first and the second cameras are installed so that their capturing directions substantially match a direction of a border between the first partial image and the second partial image near the border.
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Abstract
The invention provides a vehicle surroundings monitoring system for synthesizing and displaying images captured by a plurality of cameras to provide images that, near the border between partial images, are more accurate and more readily understood by the user than has been the case conventionally. In the synthesized image, a partial image captured by a first camera and a partial image captured by a second camera are adjacent to one another at their border. Near this border, the capturing directions of the first and the second cameras both substantially match the direction of the border. Consequently, images of objects near the border extend along the border, and thus do not disappear on the synthesized image.
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8 Claims
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1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring system comprising:
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a plurality of cameras, including at least a first and a second camera, for capturing images of surroundings of a vehicle; and
an image processing portion that receives, as input, images captured by the plurality of cameras, synthesizes partial images obtained from these camera images, and displays a synthesized image on a display device;
wherein in the synthesized image, a first partial image according to the first camera and a second partial image according to the second camera are arranged adjacent to one another; and
the first and the second cameras are installed so that their capturing directions substantially match a direction of a border between the first partial image and the second partial image near the border. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for adjusting a vehicle surroundings monitoring system, wherein the vehicle surroundings monitoring system comprises a plurality of cameras for capturing images of surroundings of the vehicle, and an image processing portion that synthesizes partial images obtained from images captured by the plurality of cameras, and displays the synthesized image on a display device;
- the method comprising;
a step of arranging first and second cameras, of the plurality of cameras, for capturing partial images arranged adjacent to one another in the synthesized image, so that the captured regions of the first and the second cameras overlap one another; and
a step of adjusting at least one of the first camera, the second camera, and the image processing portion, so that, near a border between the partial image according to the first camera and the partial image according to the second camera, the capturing directions of the first and the second cameras substantially match the direction of the border.
- the method comprising;
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