VEHICLE-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20170066375A1
• Filed: 04/17/2014
• Published: 03/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: KATO, Kiyotaka, HOSHIHARA, Yasunori
• Application Number:
  US15/120,321
• Publication Number:
  US 20170066375A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 1/28 with an adjustable field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/105 using multiple 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 2300/303 using joined images, e.g. multiple camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8093 for obstacle warning
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/58 Recognition of moving objects or obstacles, e.g. vehicles or pedestrians; Recognition of traffic objects, e.g. traffic signs, traffic lights or roads
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted display device 1 including a plurality of displays 9-1 to 9-m mounted in a vehicle, a plurality of operation receivers respectively corresponding to the plurality of displays 9-1 to 9-m, an image acquirer 3 to acquire a plurality of camera images from a plurality of externally-mounted cameras that shoot surroundings of the vehicle, an image processing controller 2a to, when one operation receivers accepts a passenger'"'"'s operation of selecting a camera image to be displayed on the corresponding display from among the plurality of camera images, issue a command to generate image data to be displayed on the display, and an image integration processor 4 to, for each of the displays 9-1 to 9-m, select a camera image to be displayed on the display from among the plurality of camera images according to the command, to generate the image data.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted display device comprising:

a plurality of displays mounted in a vehicle while being brought into correspondence with a plurality of seats including a rear seat;

a plurality of operation receivers respectively corresponding to said plurality of displays;

an image acquirer to acquire a plurality of camera images from a plurality of externally-mounted cameras that shoot surroundings of said vehicle;

an image processing controller to, when one of said plurality of operation receivers accepts an operation, by a passenger sitting in said rear seat, of selecting a camera image to be displayed on a corresponding one of said plurality of displays from among said plurality of camera images, issue an image processing command to generate image data to be displayed on said corresponding display; and

an image integration processor to, for each of said plurality of displays, select a camera image to be displayed on said each of said plurality of displays from among said plurality of camera images according to said image processing command from said image processing controller, to generate said image data.

2. The vehicle-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein when said operation receiver accepts an operation, by a passenger sitting in said rear seat, of selecting a part of first image data displayed on said display, said image processing controller issues an image processing command to enlarge said part, and wherein said image integration processor composites said plurality of camera images to generate said first image data, and generates second image data in which said part of said first image data is enlarged, according to said image processing command.

3. The vehicle-mounted display device according to claim 2, wherein said second image data includes at least two of said camera images.

4. The vehicle-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein said image integration processor detects an object approaching said vehicle by using said plurality of camera images, and superimposes information showing a warning about an approach of said object onto said image data.

5. The vehicle-mounted display device according to claim 4, wherein the information showing a warning about an approach of said object is highlighting.

6. The vehicle-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein when said operation receiver accepts an operation, by a passenger sitting in said rear seat, of selecting a part of first image data displayed on said display, said image processing controller issues an image processing command to enlarge said part in a central portion of a screen of said display, and wherein said image integration processor generates said first image data in which said plurality of cameras image are arranged in an array, and generates second image data in which said part of said first image data is enlarged and displayed in the central portion of the screen of said display, according to said image processing command.