System for monitoring vehicle surroundings
First Claim
1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring system, comprising:
- a plurality of cameras configured to photograph regions surrounding a vehicle;
a surroundings monitoring control unit configured to determine areas of the images photographed by the cameras to be displayed based on the steering state of the vehicle or an input from a driver and to output image data that combines the images contained in the determined display areas in such a manner that items captured in the displayed images are arranged in positional relationships observed by a driver; and
a display configured to display the image data outputted from the surroundings monitoring control unit, wherein the surroundings monitoring control unit is further configured such that it can control the proportion of the display that is occupied by each image displayed on the display.
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Abstract
An aspect of the present invention provides a vehicle surroundings monitoring system that includes, a plurality of cameras configured to photograph regions surrounding a vehicle, a surroundings monitoring control unit configured to determine areas of the images photographed by the cameras to be displayed based on the steering state of the vehicle or an input from a driver and to output image data that combines the images contained in the determined display areas in such a manner that items captured in the displayed images are arranged in positional relationships observed by a driver, and a display configured to display the image data outputted from the surroundings monitoring control unit, wherein the surroundings monitoring control unit is further configured such that it can control the proportion of the display that is occupied by each image displayed on the display.
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20 Claims
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1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring system, comprising:
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a plurality of cameras configured to photograph regions surrounding a vehicle;
a surroundings monitoring control unit configured to determine areas of the images photographed by the cameras to be displayed based on the steering state of the vehicle or an input from a driver and to output image data that combines the images contained in the determined display areas in such a manner that items captured in the displayed images are arranged in positional relationships observed by a driver; and
a display configured to display the image data outputted from the surroundings monitoring control unit, wherein the surroundings monitoring control unit is further configured such that it can control the proportion of the display that is occupied by each image displayed on the display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A vehicle with a surroundings monitoring system, comprising:
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a plurality of cameras configured to photograph regions surrounding a vehicle;
a surroundings monitoring control unit configured to determine areas of the images photographed by the cameras to be displayed based on the steering state of the vehicle or an input from a driver and to output image data that combines the images contained in the determined display areas in such a manner that items captured in the displayed images are arranged in positional relationships observed by a driver; and
a display configured to display the image data outputted from the surroundings monitoring control unit, wherein the surroundings monitoring control unit is further configured such that it can control the proportion of the display that is occupied by each image displayed on the display. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. A method of monitoring the surroundings of a vehicle, comprising:
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photographing a plurality of images of regions surrounding the vehicle;
determining areas of the photographed images to be displayed on a display based on the steering state of the vehicle or an input from a driver; and
combining the images contained in the determined display areas to display in such a manner that the positional relationships between items captured in the displayed images are to be the positional relationships observed by a driver;
wherein the proportion of the display occupied by each image displayed on the display is controlled. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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