INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE

• US 20090237268A1
• Filed: 11/24/2008
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Incorporated, Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Incorporated, Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Shuji, Maruyama, Tomoyuki, Hirota, Tomotaka, Kurozu
• Granted Patent: US 8,493,233 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/901
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 11/005 for lighting devices, e.g. indicating if lamps are burning or not
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/00 Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/23 with a predetermined field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/105 using multiple cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/301 combining image information with other obstacle sensor information, e.g. using RADAR/LIDAR/SONAR sensors for estimating risk of collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/303 using joined images, e.g. multiple camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/305 merging camera image with lines or icons
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8093 for obstacle warning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/02 Composition of display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/001 using specific devices not provided for in groups G09G3/02 - G09G3/36, e.g. using an intermediate record carrier such as a film slide; Projection systems; Display of non-alphanumerical information, solely or in combination with alphanumerical information, e.g. digital display on projected diapositive as background slide projectors per se G03B23/00 = 42 HP

Abstract

The present invention provides an information display system for a vehicle displaying a vehicle image overlapped with a panorama view image, and the information display system provides information around the vehicle, condition of the vehicle or information for a dangerous place to the driver with easy understand.

Claims

1. An information display system for a vehicle comprising:

a peripheral image memory part storing a plurality of image data shooting peripheral areas of the vehicle;

a peripheral image process part changing the image data into one peripheral image data;

a vehicle image process part making vehicle data;

an output image process part composing a composite image of the peripheral image and the vehicle image;

a display part displaying the composite image; and

a control part changing the display part and executing image authentication, and

wherein the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part changes coordinates system of the composite image into a panorama view coordinates system to make a panorama view image,

a virtual visual point of the panorama view coordinates system is a sight position of a driver or on a center line of a vehicle width, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part interprets the peripheral image, the composite image or the panorama view image, and recognizes and extracts a dangerous place around the vehicle, and makes a dangerous place image, and overlaps the dangerous place image with the panorama view image to display at the display part.

2. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part recognizes the dangerous place through the peripheral image, the composite image or the panorama view image, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part calculates a first distance data, which is a distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle, and measures a second distance data, which is a distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle measured by a distance measuring sensor, to measure the distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle.

3. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part has a marking to display the dangerous place, and overlaps the marking with the dangerous place of the panorama view image, and change one more of a size, brightness and a color or/and uses an inserting screen to highlight at display part.

4. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the peripheral image process part draws a vehicle structure, which is a blind spot of a driver'"'"'s sight, as a semi-transparent image or/and a line drawing,

and the vehicle structure is overlapped with the panorama view image through the output image process part to display at the display part.

5. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is a place at which a lane width in front of the vehicle is narrowed,

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part displays the dangerous place with two vertical line showing the vehicle width, and displays the distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle with a length of the vertical line, and display a relation between the lane width and the vehicle width with a color of the vertical line, and displays the vertical lines overlapped with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

6. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is a traffic signal disposed at which the driver cannot see the traffic signal via a front window, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part overlaps an image of the traffic signal with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

7. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is a person or an object disposed at the blind spot of the driver'"'"'s sight, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part overlaps an image of the person or the object with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

8. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is an abnormal component of the vehicle,

a main control part outputs data of the abnormal component to the vehicle image process part, and

the vehicle image process part displays data of the abnormal component overlapped with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

9. The information display system of claim 8,

wherein the abnormal component is a light which is out or order.

10. The information display system of claim 8,

wherein the abnormal component a component which a replacement dead line or a maintain managing deadline is over.

15. A motor vehicle comprising the information display system of claim 1 or claim 11.

11. An information display system for a vehicle comprising:

a peripheral image memory part that stores a plurality of image data obtained from shooting peripheral areas of the vehicle;

a peripheral image process part that changes the image data into peripheral image data;

a vehicle image process part making vehicle data;

an output image process part composing a composite image of the peripheral image and the vehicle image;

a display part displaying the composite image; and

a control part changing the display part and executing image authentication,

wherein the peripheral image process part or the output image process part changes a coordinates system of the composite image into a panorama view coordinates system to make a panorama view image.

12. The information display system for a vehicle of claim 11,

further comprising a virtual visual point of the panorama view coordinates system, wherein the virtual visual point of the panorama view coordinates system is a sight position of a driver or on a center line of a vehicle width, and the peripheral image process part or the output image process part interprets the peripheral image, the composite image or the panorama view image.

13. The information display system for a vehicle of claim 12,

wherein the peripheral image process part or the output image process part further recognizes and extracts a dangerous place around the vehicle, makes a dangerous place image, and overlaps the dangerous place image with the panorama view image to display at the display part.

14. The information display system of claim 13,

wherein the peripheral image process part or the output image process part recognizes the dangerous place through the peripheral image, the composite image or the panorama view image, and

the peripheral image process part or the output image process part calculates a first distance data, which is a distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle, and measures a second distance data, which is a distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle measured by a distance measuring sensor, to measure the distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle.