Information display system for vehicle

• US 8,493,233 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2008
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Incorporated, Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Incorporated, Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Tomotaka, Kurozu, Hirota, Tomoyuki, Maruyama, Shuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, QUANG
• Application Number:
  US12/276,945
• Publication Number:
  US 20090237268A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,702 Days
• Field of Search: 340/901, 340/933, 340/468, 340/435, 340/438
• US Class Current: 340/901
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 11/005 for lighting devices, e.g. indicating if lamps are burning or not
• 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 2300/105 using multiple cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/301 combining image information with other obstacle sensor information, e.g. using RADAR/LIDAR/SONAR sensors for estimating risk of collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/303 using joined images, e.g. multiple camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/305 merging camera image with lines or icons
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8093 for obstacle warning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/02 Composition of display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/001 using specific devices not provided for in groups G09G3/02 - G09G3/36, e.g. using an intermediate record carrier such as a film slide; Projection systems; Display of non-alphanumerical information, solely or in combination with alphanumerical information, e.g. digital display on projected diapositive as background slide projectors per se G03B23/00 = 42 HP

Abstract

The present invention provides an information display system for a vehicle displaying a vehicle image overlapped with a panorama view image, and the information display system provides information around the vehicle, condition of the vehicle or information for a dangerous place to the driver with easy understand.

Claims

1. An information display system for a vehicle comprising:

a peripheral image memory part configured to store a plurality of image data obtained from shooting peripheral areas of the vehicle;

a peripheral image process part configured to process the plurality of image data into one peripheral image data;

a vehicle image process part configured to generate a vehicle image;

an output image process part configured to generate a composite image of the peripheral image and the vehicle image;

a display part configured to display the composite image; and

a control part configured to control the display part and executing image authentication, wherein the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part changes coordinates system of the composite image into a panorama view coordinates system to generate a panorama view image,

a virtual visual point of the panorama view coordinates system is a sight position of a driver or on a center line of a vehicle width, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part interprets the peripheral image, the composite image or the panorama view image, and recognizes and extracts a dangerous place around the vehicle, and generates a dangerous place image, and overlaps the dangerous place image with the panorama view image to display on the display part,

wherein the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part recognizes the dangerous place through the peripheral image data, the composite image or the panorama view image, and the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part calculates a first distance from the peripheral image data, the composite image or the panorama view image, which is a distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle, and measures a second distance, which is a distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle measured by a distance measuring sensor, to measure the distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle,

wherein the first distance data and the second distance data are compared to determine whether a difference between the first distance data and the second distance data is more than predetermined error range, the distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle is re-measured to display a credible distance on the display part;

wherein the image data is operated by a solid image recognition method to generate the composite image including distance information and a measure of the first distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle, and using the data of the panorama view image, the first distance data is calculated by the solid image recognition method,

wherein the vehicle image includes a vehicle structure which is a blind spot of the driver'"'"'s sight, and states of vehicle components monitored by disposing one or more sensors at each component of the vehicle; and

wherein a semi-transparent view image of said vehicle image is overlapped onto the panorama view image allowing the driver to visualize the portions of the panorama view that are covered by the vehicle created blind spot.

2. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is a place at which a lane width in front of the vehicle is narrowed,

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part displays the dangerous place with two vertical line showing the vehicle width, and displays the distance between the dangerous place and the vehicle with a length of the vertical line, and display a relation between the lane width and the vehicle width with a color of the vertical line, and displays the vertical lines overlapped with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

3. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is a traffic signal disposed at which the driver cannot see the traffic signal via a front window, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part overlaps an image of the traffic signal with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

4. The information display system of claim 1,

wherein the dangerous place is a person or an object disposed at the blind spot of the driver'"'"'s sight, and

the peripheral image process part or/and the output image process part overlaps an image of the person or the object with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

5. The information display system of claim 1, wherein the dangerous place is an abnormal component of the vehicle, a main control part receives abnormal information from the one or more sensors and outputs data of the abnormal component to the vehicle image process part, and the vehicle image process part displays data of the abnormal component overlapped with the panorama view image to highlight at the display part.

6. The information display system of claim 5,

wherein the abnormal component is a light which is out of order.

7. The information display system of claim 5,

wherein the abnormal component a component which a replacement dead line or a maintain managing deadline is over.

8. A vehicle comprising the information display system of claim 1.