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Vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus

  • US 9,013,579 B2
  • Filed: 05/18/2012
  • Issued: 04/21/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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