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Vicinity display for car

  • US 6,515,597 B1
  • Filed: 09/25/2001
  • Issued: 02/04/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A vehicle peripheral-area display apparatus comprising:

  • an image pick-up unit for picking up images of a peripheral area of a vehicle;

    a positional information detecting unit for detecting the own vehicle position of said vehicle as positional information;

    a data storage unit for storing picture data of the peripheral area of the vehicle, the picture data is picked up by said image pick-up unit, and also storing said positional information of the vehicle;

    a picture composite unit for reading out picture data corresponding to the positional information detected by said positional information detecting unit from said data storage unit, and for combining said read picture data with such picture data indicative of a shape of said vehicle; and

    a display control unit for causing the picture data combined in said picture composite unit to be displayed on a display unit.

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