Vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus
First Claim
1. A vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus comprising:
- a notable video image generator generating a narrow view-field region as a notable video image, the narrow view-field region being part of a video image of an area surrounding a vehicle obtained by an imaging unit;
an obstacle recognizer recognizing an obstacle in the area surrounding the vehicle;
an obstacle region calculator calculating an obstacle region, the obstacle region being a region, in the video image, of the obstacle recognized by the obstacle recognizer;
an overlapping region calculator calculating an overlapping region, the overlapping region being a region, in the video image, extending into the narrow view-field region from a direction of the obstacle region;
a notable obstacle image generator generating a notable obstacle image comprising the obstacle region and the overlapping region, if the obstacle region is contained in an image region that is partially overlapping with the narrow view-field region and is a part of the video image; and
an image merger generating a surrounding-area monitoring display image comprising the notable video image and the notable obstacle image.
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Abstract
A vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus that, when recognizing an obstacle, allows for easy determination of the positional relationship between the obstacle and scenery included in a video image of the area surrounding the vehicle, generates a narrow view-field region that is a part of the video image as a notable video image, and if an obstacle region that is a region of the recognized obstacle in the video image is located outside of the narrow view-field region and if the obstacle region is contained in an image region that is partially overlapping with the narrow view-field region and is a part of the video image, generates the image region as a notable obstacle image so as to generate a surrounding-area monitoring display image comprised of the notable video image and the notable obstacle image.
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13 Claims
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1. A vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus comprising:
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a notable video image generator generating a narrow view-field region as a notable video image, the narrow view-field region being part of a video image of an area surrounding a vehicle obtained by an imaging unit; an obstacle recognizer recognizing an obstacle in the area surrounding the vehicle; an obstacle region calculator calculating an obstacle region, the obstacle region being a region, in the video image, of the obstacle recognized by the obstacle recognizer; an overlapping region calculator calculating an overlapping region, the overlapping region being a region, in the video image, extending into the narrow view-field region from a direction of the obstacle region; a notable obstacle image generator generating a notable obstacle image comprising the obstacle region and the overlapping region, if the obstacle region is contained in an image region that is partially overlapping with the narrow view-field region and is a part of the video image; and an image merger generating a surrounding-area monitoring display image comprising the notable video image and the notable obstacle image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus comprising:
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a notable video image generator generating a narrow view-field region as a notable video image, the narrow view-field region being part of a video image of an area surrounding a vehicle obtained by an imaging unit; an obstacle recognizer recognizing an obstacle in the area surrounding the vehicle; an obstacle region calculator calculating an obstacle region, the obstacle region being a region, in the video image, of the obstacle recognized by the obstacle recognizer; a notable obstacle image generator generating a notable obstacle image containing at least the obstacle region from the video image if the obstacle region is located outside of the narrow view-field image; an indicator image generator generating an indicator image that indicates the relative position of the notable obstacle image with respect to the vehicle; and an image merger merging the notable obstacle image, the indicator image, and the notable video image so as to display the notable obstacle image as a pop-up on a monitor screen.
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