Image processor and monitoring system
First Claim
1. An image processor comprising an image processing section, which receives multiple images that have been taken by cameras mounted on a vehicle to monitor surroundings of the vehicle, generates a synthesized image from the multiple images and outputs the synthesized image to a display device, wherein the image processing section switches display modes of the synthesized image in accordance with a state of a movable part of the vehicle.
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Abstract
In an image processor for synthesizing images that have been taken by multiple cameras mounted on a vehicle, even if any movable part of the vehicle has changed its state, the synthesized image will have no unnatural part. A pixel synthesizer receives the images that have been captured by the cameras included in an imaging section and generates the synthesized image by reference to a mapping table. Receiving a signal indicative of the state of a movable part such as the door or hood of the vehicle, a display mode changer disables at least one of the cameras that is taking an image to be affected by any change in the state of the movable part. For that purpose, the changer rewrites mapping data stored on the mapping table and thereby eliminates the image in question from the synthesized image.
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12 Claims
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1. An image processor comprising an image processing section, which receives multiple images that have been taken by cameras mounted on a vehicle to monitor surroundings of the vehicle, generates a synthesized image from the multiple images and outputs the synthesized image to a display device,
wherein the image processing section switches display modes of the synthesized image in accordance with a state of a movable part of the vehicle.
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12. A monitoring system comprising:
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multiple cameras, mounted on a vehicle, for taking images of surroundings of the vehicle;
a display device; and
an image processing section, which receives the images taken by the cameras, generates a synthesized image from the images and then outputs the synthesized image to the display device, wherein the image processing section switches display modes of the synthesized image in accordance with a state of a movable part of the vehicle.
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Specification