On-vehicle rear-seat display device

• US 20050125123A1
• Filed: 12/06/2004
• Published: 06/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Kageyama, Tatsumi
• Application Number:
  US11/004,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20050125123A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/008 allowing the driver to see passengers, e.g. for busses combined with rear-view mirrors B60R1/08
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8013 for child monitoring

Abstract

A camera is built in a DVD mechanical portion or a display portion of a rear entertainment system, and the camera takes a passenger sat in a rear seat or his or her situations, or a backward scene of the vehicle seen from the rear seat as a moving image or a still image. The picked up video signals are subjected to image processing by an image processor, and are displayed thereon. Moreover, when recording the image taken by the camera, the image is recorded in a recording part as a moving image or a still image according to an input operation via a key input portion. Further, the image taken by the camera is also sent to a front seat navigation-monitor portion, and displayed thereon.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle rear-seat display device comprising:

a camera that takes a rear seat of a vehicle or a rearward scene of the vehicle;

image processing means for processing video signals of the image generated by the camera; and

a display portion that is disposed for the sake a passenger sat in a rear seat of the vehicle, and displays thereon the video signals generated by the camera sent from the image processing means.

2. The on-vehicle rear-seat display device according to claim 1, wherein the image processing means transmits the video signals generated by the camera to a navigation monitor portion disposed in a front seat of the vehicle, and displays the signals thereon.

3. The on-vehicle rear-seat display device according to claim 1, further comprising recording means for recording the video signals subjected to image processing by the image processing means in a recording medium.

4. The on-vehicle rear-seat display device according to claim 3, wherein the recording medium is detachable from the recording means.