Driving supporting apparatus

• US 20080151048A1
• Filed: 06/27/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki, Watanabe, Takashi, Sugimoto, Yoichi, Oshida, Kei
• Application Number:
  US11/823,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20080151048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/26 to the rear of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/106 using night vision cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/207 using multi-purpose displays, e.g. camera image and navigation or video on same display
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/306 using a re-scaling of images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/404 triggering from stand-by mode to operation mode
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8066 for monitoring rearward traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A driving support apparatus includes: an image sensing device that is provided in a vehicle, and is able to photograph a rearward region of the vehicle, and a dead angle region that is adjacent to the rearward region and cannot be perceived by a driver with a side mirror; and a display unit that displays video images photographed by the image sensing device so as to be visible to the driver, wherein a predetermined region of the video image photographed by the image sensing device is displayed in an enlarged form.

Claims

1. A driving support apparatus comprising:

an image sensing device that is provided in a vehicle, and is able to photograph a rearward region of the vehicle, and a dead angle region that is adjacent to the rearward region and cannot be perceived by a driver with a side mirror; and

a display unit that displays video images photographed by the image sensing device so as to be visible to the driver, wherein

a predetermined region of the video image photographed by the image sensing device is displayed in an enlarged form.

2. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined region corresponds to the rearward region.

3. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

an enlargement ratio of the predetermined region of the video image can be changed in each unit display region that makes up the video image.

4. The driving support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the enlargement ratio increases the farther away it is from the dead angle region.

5. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit displays the dead angle region of the video image in a reduced form in the vehicle width direction.

6. The driving support apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the reduction ratio of the dead angle region of the video image decreases the closer it is to the predetermined region.

7. The driving support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the enlargement ratio is set such that the size of an image of an object in the predetermined region displayed by the display unit is substantially the same as the size of an image of the object that is perceived by the driver in the side mirror.

8. The driving support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the image sensing device is able to photograph a region that includes a portion of a body of the vehicle, and

the display unit displays a video image such that an enlargement ratio of the region that includes the portion of the vehicle body is smaller than the enlargement ratio of the predetermined region in the vehicle width direction.