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VEHICLE VISION SYSTEM WITH BLIND ZONE DISPLAY AND ALERT SYSTEM

  • US 20180134217A1
  • Filed: 05/06/2016
  • Published: 05/17/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2015
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A vision system for a vehicle, said vision system comprising:

  • an exterior structure mounted at an exterior portion of a body side of a vehicle equipped with said vision system;

    an imaging sensor disposed at said exterior structure and having a field of view exterior of the equipped vehicle;

    wherein the field of view of said imaging sensor extends at least sideward and rearward of the equipped vehicle;

    wherein the field of view of said imaging sensor encompasses a portion of a side lane adjacent to the lane in which the equipped vehicle is traveling;

    wherein the field of view of said imaging sensor encompasses at least a portion of the body side of the equipped vehicle at which the exterior structure is mounted;

    said imaging sensor capturing image data within its field of view;

    a video display screen disposed in an interior cabin of the equipped vehicle and viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle, wherein said video display screen is operable to display video images derived at least in part from image data captured by said imaging sensor;

    wherein said video display screen is operable to display a graphic overlay at the displayed video images to alert the driver of relative locations of other vehicles in the field of view of said image sensor; and

    wherein said graphic overlay comprises a semitransparent perspectively-rendered overlay having a longitudinally extending line segment that extends along a displayed body side portion of the equipped vehicle and a plurality of laterally extending line segments that extend laterally outwardly from the longitudinally extending line segment at spaced apart intervals along the longitudinally extending line segment.

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