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Apparatus and method for displaying a blind spot

  • US 9,418,556 B2
  • Filed: 12/29/2011
  • Issued: 08/16/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for displaying a blind spot, comprising:

  • an imaging unit for detecting surrounding images of a vehicle;

    a control unit for merging each of at least one image captured by the imaging unit at a specific point of time and before the specific point of time, side by side in chronological order, and outputting the image obtained by merging as an image for display and displaying a vehicle icon indicative of a current position of the vehicle on the outputted image for display in a contour form or semi-transparently so that a blind spot proximate the vehicle and a blind spot covered by the vehicle body are displayed; and

    a screen display unit for displaying the image for display and the vehicle icon outputted from the control unit,wherein the outputted image for display is any one of an original image of the captured image, an image obtained by converting the point of time of the original image and an image obtained by merging the original image and a plurality of images comprising converted points of time.

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