Vehicle with image data signal source identification

• US 20050286740A1
• Filed: 06/21/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Magna Donnelly GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Magna Donnelly GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Sigle, Marc-Andre
• Application Number:
  US11/157,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20050286740A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/104
• 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 1/23 with a predetermined field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/105 using multiple cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/301 combining image information with other obstacle sensor information, e.g. using RADAR/LIDAR/SONAR sensors for estimating risk of collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/802 for monitoring and displaying vehicle exterior blind spot views
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8066 for monitoring rearward traffic
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/088 the inserted signal being digital
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A vehicle (01) includes at least one image display unit (02) and at least one image data signal source (04, 05, 06, 07, 08) which are connected to one another via at least one transmission channel (10). Each image data signal source (04, 05, 06, 07, 08) has at least one signal generator (09), whereby the signal generator (09) generates a control signal, which can be transmitted over the transmission channel (10), and whereby the control signal can be received and evaluated in an evaluation unit (03).

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

an image display unit;

a transmission channel;

an image data signal source, the image display unit being connected with the image data signal source over said channel;

a signal generator associated with the image data signal source, the signal generator generating a control signal transmittable over the transmission channel; and

an evaluation unit for receiving and evaluating the control signal.

2. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the image display unit comprises one of a monitor and a visual display with a flat screen.

3. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the information contained in the control signal is one of automatically and selectively displayed information on the image display unit.

4. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the image data signal source consists of at least one video camera.

5. A vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the at least one video camera is provided as a reversing camera that takes pictures from an area which from the driver'"'"'s position, is viewable at least incompletely.

6. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the image data signal source is in the form of a play back device including one or more of a DVD play back device and a digital storage play back device.

7. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the image data signal source is in the form of a navigation system.

8. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the image data signal source is in the form of a television receiver.

9. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein an image data signal and/or a control signal can be transmitted contact-entailingly, or contact based, over the transmission channel through electric current or signaling.

10. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein an image data signal and/or a control signal can be transmitted contactlessly over the transmission channel through electro-magnetic waves.

11. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein an image data signal and/or a control signal is transmitted in encoded form over the transmission channel.

12. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generated by the signal generator is unequivocally associated with an image data signal of an image data signal source.

13. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the signal generator is integrated with the associated image data signal source.

14. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the presence of a control signal including an expected control signal, at the evaluation unit can be checked by means of the evaluation unit.

15. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the result of the evaluation of the evaluation unit is transmitted to the image display unit in the form of a result signal, whereby the signal display of the image display unit can be influenced by means of the result signal.

16. A vehicle according to claim 1 wherein the evaluation unit is integrated with the image display unit.

17. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein an image data signal and/or control signal can be transmitted over the transmission channel in the form of the FBAS transmission standard or a form similar to that of this transmission standard.

18. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a signal connecting element is arranged between the image data signal source and the signal generator and the transmission channel.

19. A vehicle according to claim 18, wherein the signal connecting element is in the form of an integrated circuit including a video encoder.

20. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a signal separating element is arranged between the image display unit and the transmission channel.

21. A vehicle according to claim 20, wherein the signal separating element is in the form of an integrated circuit, in particular in the form of a video decoder.

22. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein image data signals and control signals can be transmitted in alternate sections over the transmission channel.

23. A vehicle according to claim 22, wherein the control signal can be transmitted within the vertical blank interval.

24. A vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the control signal is transmitted over the transmission channel in a form of the Teletext transmission standard or a video text format that is similar to the Teletext transmission standard.