IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20100020176A1
• Filed: 07/22/2009
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: HIGASHIBARA, Kiyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/507,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20100020176A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/23 with a predetermined field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/28 with an adjustable field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/30 characterised by the type of image processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

There is provided an image processing system includes an imaging device, a control device for performing image processing, and a display device for displaying the image, the image processing system including an imaging unit for imaging an image of a periphery of a vehicle, a conversion unit for converting the image of the periphery of the vehicle imaged with the imaging unit from a first image to a second image corresponding to a partial region of the first image, an operation unit for performing operation on the display device, and a control unit for controlling the conversion unit and the display device so that when the display device is displaying a third image other than the image imaged with the imaging unit, the second image is displayed after changing a display image from the third image to the first image according to the operation of the operation unit.

Claims

1. An image processing system configured to include

an imaging device for imaging an image;

a control device for performing image processing on the image imaged with the imaging device; and

a display device for displaying the image subjected to the image processing by the control device;

the image processing system comprising;

an imaging unit for imaging an image of a periphery of a vehicle;

a conversion unit for converting the image of the periphery of the vehicle imaged with the imaging unit from a first image to a second image corresponding to a partial region of the first image;

an operation unit for performing operation on the display device; and

a control unit for controlling the conversion unit and the display device so that when the display device is displaying a third image other than the image imaged with the imaging unit, the second image is displayed after changing a display image from the third image to the first image according to the operation of the operation unit.

2. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the operation of the operation unit is pushing a button once.

3. The image processing system according to claim 2, wherein the first image is an image of a front side of the vehicle, the second image is an image of the front side on the left and the right corresponding to the partial region of the image of the front side, and the third image is map information.

4. The image processing system according to claim 3, wherein the conversion unit performs conversion such that history of conversion from the first image to the second image is known.

5. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the conversion unit is included in the imaging device.

6. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the conversion unit is included in the control device.

7. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the conversion unit performs conversion from RAW data obtained as a result of imaging with the imaging unit.

8. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the conversion unit performs conversion from an image of after coding RAW data obtained as a result of imaging with the imaging unit.

9. An imaging device comprising:

an imaging unit for imaging an image of a periphery of a vehicle; and

a conversion unit for converting the image imaged with the imaging unit from a first image to a second image corresponding to a partial region of the first image based on a conversion instruction from the outside.

10. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

imaging an image of a periphery of a vehicle;

displaying the image of the periphery of the vehicle imaged in the imaging step;

converting the image of the periphery of the vehicle imaged in the imaging step from a first image to a second image corresponding to a partial region of the first image; and

performing control so that when a display device is displaying a third image other than the image imaged with an imaging unit, the second image is displayed after changing a display image from the third image to the first image according to the operation on the display device for displaying the image displayed in the displaying step.

11. A computer program for causing a computer to execute the steps of:

imaging an image of a periphery of a vehicle;

displaying the image of the periphery of the vehicle imaged in the imaging step;

converting the image of the periphery of the vehicle imaged in the imaging step from a first image to a second image corresponding to a partial region of the first image; and

performing control so that when a display device is displaying a third image other than the image imaged with an imaging unit, the second image is displayed after changing a display image from the third image to the first image according to the operation on the display device for displaying the image displayed in the displaying step.