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IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS

  • US 20090160940A1
  • Filed: 10/30/2008
  • Published: 06/25/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image display method for displaying a combined image by capturing images at areas surrounding a vehicle using a plurality of cameras, and combining the captured images into a virtual top-view image of the vehicle, the image display method comprising:

  • calculating a plurality of displacement vectors for a plurality of points taken on the images captured by the cameras upon the application of a load that changes the attitude of a camera on the vehicle; and

    determining image borderlines between two adjacent images such that a difference in the directions of displacement vectors in the neighborhood of each image borderline does not exceed a predetermined angle.

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