CAMERA MONITOR SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

• US 20170091559A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Connaught Electronics Limited (Valeo SE), Valeo North America Incorporated (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Connaught Electronics Limited (Valeo SE), Valeo North America Incorporated (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Hurtado, Miguel, Taleb-Bendiab, Amine, Mattern, Heinz, Gorman, Christopher, Iakimov, Andrey
• Application Number:
  US14/869,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20170091559A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/008 for anti-collision purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A camera monitor system for a vehicle, including a single camera disposed on a rear of the vehicle comprising a field of view (FoV), a processor configured to process image data received by the single camera to obtain an image of a vehicle surrounding, and an output device configured to display the image of the vehicle surrounding. The FoV is a rearview comprising a horizontal FoV angle ranging from 50° to 150.

Claims

1. A camera monitor system for a vehicle, comprising:

a single camera disposed on a rear of the vehicle comprising a field of view (FoV), wherein the FoV is a rearview comprising a horizontal FoV angle ranging from 50°

to 150°

;

a processor configured to process image data received by the single camera to obtain an image of a vehicle surrounding;

an output device configured to display the image of the vehicle surrounding; and

a sensor unit configured to output a signal, wherein the output device is configured to display the signal to warn a driver of the vehicle of presence of an object in a blind zone outside of the FoV and inside a sensing zone of the sensor unit.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the rear is a rearmost area on a roof just before where a rear windshield starts.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the rear is a back area where a license plate is configured to be disposed.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the FoV comprises a vertical FoV angle ranging from 15°

and 70°

.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the output device is one selected from the group consisting of:

three separate displays, a replacement for a rearview mirror disposed on the vehicle, a dual display within a rearview mirror disposed on the vehicle, and a portion of a windshield of the vehicle.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle is without a wing mirror, without a rear mirror, and without a rear windshield.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the image of the vehicle surrounding is a rear panoramic view comprising the rearview, a left side view, and a right side view to a driver operating the vehicle.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the image of the vehicle surrounding complies with requirements of the FMVSS 111 standard and the ECE R46 regulation.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when the single camera images an object of interest, the image comprises at least one of a speed of the object of interest, a distance between the object of interest and the vehicle, and a license plate information of the object of interest.

27. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the output device comprises a left display, a center display, and a right display,

the left display is disposed on a left A-pillar and displays a left side view,

the center display is a replacement for a rearview mirror and displays a rear view, and

the right display is disposed on a right A-pillar and displays a right side view.

28. The system according to claim 1, wherein the single camera is not disposed on a longitudinal center axis of the vehicle.

9. (canceled)

11. A camera monitor system for a vehicle, comprising:

a first camera disposed on a rear of the vehicle comprising a first field of view (FoV), wherein the first FoV is a first rearview;

a second camera disposed on the rear of the vehicle comprising a second FoV, wherein the second FoV is a second rearview;

a processor configured to process the first FoV and the second FoV to obtain an image of a vehicle surrounding, wherein the combined FoV comprises a horizontal FoV angle ranging from 50°

to 300°

; and

an output device is configured to display the image of the vehicle surrounding,

wherein the rear of the vehicle is a rearmost area on a roof just before a rear windshield.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the combined FoV comprises a vertical FoV angle ranging from 15°

and 70°

.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein the output device is one selected from the group consisting of:

three separate displays, a replacement for a rearview mirror disposed on the vehicle, a dual display within a rearview mirror disposed on the vehicle, and a portion of a windshield of the vehicle.

16. The system according to claim 11, wherein the vehicle is without a wing mirror, without a rear mirror, and without a rear windshield.

17. The system according to claim 11, wherein the image of the vehicle surrounding is a rear panoramic view comprising the rearview, a left side view, and a right side view to a driver operating the vehicle.

18. The system according to claim 11, wherein the image of the vehicle surrounding complies with requirements of the FMVSS 111 standard and the ECE R46 regulation.

19. The system according to claim 11, further comprising a sensor unit configured to output a signal, wherein the output device is configured to display the signal to warn a driver of the vehicle of presence of an object in a blind zone outside of the FoV and inside a sensing zone of the sensor unit.

12. (canceled)

13. (canceled)

20. (canceled)

21. A monitoring method comprising:

disposing a single camera on a vehicle, the single camera having a field of view (FoV);

determining that an object of interest has entered the FoV; and

displaying a view of the external environment of the vehicle, wherein the view includes the object of interest, on an output device,

wherein the FoV is a rearward view comprising a horizontal FoV angle ranging from 50°

to 150°

, and

wherein the view displayed on the output device complies with requirements of the FMVSS 111 standard and the ECE R46 regulation.

22. The monitoring method according to claim 21, further comprising:

disposing a sensor unit on the vehicle such that a sensing zone of the sensor unit is outside of the field of view; and

illuminating a warning icon when the sensor unit determines that the object of interest has entered the sensing zone.

23. The monitoring method according to claim 21, wherein the vehicle is without a wing mirror, without a rear mirror, and without a rear windshield.

24. The monitoring method according to claim 21, wherein the displaying further comprises displaying at least one of a speed of the object of interest, a distance between the object of interest and the vehicle, and a license plate information of the object of interest.

26. The monitoring method according to claim 21, wherein the output device is one selected from the group consisting of:

three separate displays, a replacement for a rearview mirror disposed on the vehicle, a dual display within a rearview mirror disposed on the vehicle, and a portion of a windshield of the vehicle.

29. The monitoring method according to claim 21, wherein the single camera is disposed on a rear windshield inside the vehicle.

25. (canceled)