DEVICE FOR SURVEYING SURROUND OF WORKING MACHINE

• US 20130182066A1
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ishimoto, Hidefumi
• Application Number:
  US13/876,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20130182066A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/38
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/261 Surveying the work-site to be treated
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A back camera 13B, left-side and right-side cameras 13L and 13R, and a front camera 13F are provided on an upper swiveling body 3. By converting viewpoints of camera images obtained by the cameras 13B, 13L, and 13R, individual over view images are generated and are combined with one another to form a surveillance panorama image disposed around a display character 21. The surveillance panorama image is displayed, together with a camera image, which is an image obtained by the front camera 13F, in an image display section 20a of a monitor 20. By appropriately operating switches SW1 through SW5 provided in an operation panel section 20b, a camera image which has not been converted into one of the individual over view images is displayed in an enlarged state.

Claims

1. A device for surveying surround of a working machine provided a plurality of cameras on said working machine, directions of respective camera views being adapted to convert by means of signal processing of respective camera images from top to downward direction to produce over view images on a monitor display, said device comprising:

an image mixing unit to produce a composite over view images from individual over view images to show on said monitor display attained by said cameras; and

at least one switch to show on said monitor display at least one original camera image from one taken by one of cameras in place of one or more individual over view image.

2. A device for surveying surround of a working machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said cameras include a back camera to take an image of a view at the back-ward of said working machine and two side-ward cameras to take an image of a view on the left side-ward of said working machine and an image of a view on the right side-ward of said working machine, and said monitor display being shown as a graphic image of a plan view of said working machine as a illustrated character on said monitor display, together with said composite over view image obtained as a result of mixing of said individual over view images consisting of a back over view image located at a back position based on the camera image obtained by the back camera and left-side and right-side over view images located at a left-side position and a right-side position based on the camera images obtained by the left-side and right-side cameras, respectively as a surveillance panorama image around said graphic image of said working machine.

3. A device for surveying surround of a working machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein a front camera having a viewing range of the front of said working machine is further provided, and a camera image of said front camera is displayed on said monitor display instead of being combined by using image mixing unit.

4. A device for surveying surround of a working machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said camera image superposedly shown on said individual over view image, when converting one of said individual over view images specified by said image change-over switch into a camera image.

5. A device for surveying surround of a working machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said monitor display includes an image display section and an operation panel section, and said switch comprising at operation panel section.

6. A device for surveying surround of a working machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said monitor display having a touch panel monitor, and said switch is provided in a display section of monitor display.

7. A device for surveying surround of a working machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said switch being change-over in cooperation with an operation unit of said working machine.