Image display device

• US 10,625,678 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2017
• Issued: 04/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishii, Takahiro, Fujisaki, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jitesh
• Application Number:
  US15/817,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20180170264A1
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• 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 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/12 Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/26 to the rear of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/28 with an adjustable field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1253 with cameras, video cameras or video screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/30 characterised by the type of image processing
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/303 using joined images, e.g. multiple camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/605 the adjustment being automatic
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8046 for replacing a rear-view mirror system
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8066 for monitoring rearward traffic
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle

Abstract

An image display device includes: a camera mounted on a vehicle and configured to take an image representing a view behind the vehicle; an image cutouter configured to cut out a second image as a cutout image that is cut out from a first image based on a cutout position representing a position of a portion of the first image in the first image, the first image being taken by the camera; and a display configured to display the second image cut out by the image cutouter. The image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image based on a change of an orientation of the vehicle.

Claims

1. An image display device, comprising:

a camera mounted on a vehicle and configured to take an image representing a view behind the vehicle;

an image cutouter configured to cut out a second image as a cutout image that is cut out from a first image based on a cutout position representing a position of a portion of the first image in the first image, the first image being taken by the camera; and

a display configured to display the second image cut out by the image cutouter,

wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image based on a change of an orientation of the vehicle, and

wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image when a following vehicle follows the vehicle and when a change of a position of the following vehicle in the first image is caused by a change of the orientation of the vehicle.

2. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the image cutouter is configured to:

detect a first change amount and a position change amount, the first change amount being an amount of change of the orientation of the vehicle in the first period, the position change amount being an amount of change of the position of the following vehicle in the first image in the first period; and

compare the first change amount and the position change amount with each other to determine whether the change of the position of the following vehicle by the position change amount in the first period is caused by a change of the orientation of the vehicle in the first period.

3. The image display device according to claim 2, wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image based on the first change amount when the image cutouter determines that the change of the position of the following vehicle by the position change amount in the first period is caused by the change of the orientation of the vehicle in the first period.

4. The image display device according to claim 2, wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image based on the position change amount when the image cutouter determines that the change of the position of the following vehicle by the position change amount in the first period is caused by the change of the orientation of the vehicle in the first period.

5. An image display device, comprising:

a camera mounted on a vehicle and configured to take an image representing a view behind the vehicle;

an image cutouter configured to cut out a second image as a cutout image that is cut out from a first image based on a cutout position representing a position of a portion of the first image in the first image, the first image being taken by the camera; and

a display configured to display the second image cut out by the image cutouter,

wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image based on a change of an orientation of the vehicle, and

wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image when a following vehicle following the vehicle is detected in the first image.

6. The image display device according to claim 5, wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image when the orientation of the vehicle is changed due to driving of the vehicle on a curve.

7. The image display device according to claim 6, wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image such that the cutout position is moved toward an inner side of the curve in the first image, when driving of the vehicle on the curve is detected.

8. The image display device according to claim 5, wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image based on a first change amount that is an amount of change of the orientation of the vehicle in a first period.

9. The image display device according to claim 8, wherein the image cutouter is configured to:

calculate the first change amount; and

change the cutout position for the second image in the first image such that the cutout image created when the amount of change of the orientation of the vehicle in the first period is the first change amount becomes the cutout image created when the amount of change of the orientation of the vehicle is equal to a second change amount that is less than the first change amount.

10. The image display device according to claim 9,

wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position from a reference cutout position based on a change of the orientation of the vehicle, and the reference cutout position is a reference position for the cutout image in the first image,

wherein the first period is a period whose endpoint is a first time point and whose starting point is a second time point that is earlier than the first time point, and

wherein the image cutouter is configured to change the cutout position for the second image in the first image such that the second image cut out from the first image at the first time point becomes the cutout image cut out at the reference cutout position that is a position at a time before a change of the cutout position for the second image in the first image at the second time point.