Motor vehicle having a camera monitoring system

• US 9,499,099 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Heinemann, Patrick, Schlittenbauer, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Jeffery
• Application Number:
  US14/654,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20150343950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,106 Days
• Field of Search: 348/148
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 2300/303 using joined images, e.g. multiple camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/60 characterised by monitoring and displaying vehicle exterior scenes from a transformed perspective
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/802 for monitoring and displaying vehicle exterior blind spot views
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8046 for replacing a rear-view mirror system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A motor vehicle includes at least two cameras spaced apart from each other at least in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle for detecting the environment of the motor vehicle, at least one processing device and at least one display device, wherein the processing device is configured to generate at least one target image from the camera data of the at least two cameras, wherein the target image includes two image regions arranged next to each other, wherein the content of the first image region is determined from the image data of the first camera and the content of the second image region is determined from the image data of the second camera, and wherein the processing device is configured to control the display device to output the target image.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:

two side cameras, one of said two side cameras being arranged on a left side of the motor vehicle and the other one of the two side cameras being arranged on a right side of the motor vehicle for a wide-angle capture of a respective zone situated to the left side and the right side of the motor vehicle;

a rear camera arranged on a rear side of the motor vehicle for imaging an area behind the motor vehicle, said two side cameras being spaced apart from the rear camera at least in a longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle, wherein a respective displayed spatial angle of the two side cameras overlaps with a displayed spatial angle of the rear area camera at least in a zone behind the motor vehicle;

two display devices; and

a processing device configured to generate a first target image from data obtained by the one of the two side cameras and the rear camera, and a second target image from data obtained from the other one of the two side cameras and the rear camera,

said first and second target image each comprising a first image region and a second image region arranged next to each other,

said first image region of the first and second target image displaying image data of the rear camera corresponding to a fixedly predefined spatial angle covered by the rear camera, said image data of the rear camera corresponding to a field of view of a conventional external rear mirror of a motor vehicle,

said second image region of the first target image displaying image data of the one of the two side cameras, said second region of the second target image displaying image data of the other one of the two side cameras, said image data of the two side cameras corresponding respectively to a fixedly predefined spatial angle respectively covered by the two side cameras

said processing device being configured to control one of the two display devices to display the first target image and to control the other one of the two display devices to display the second target image.

2. The motor vehicle of claim 1, further comprising another processing device configured to generate the second target image from the data obtained from the other one of the two side cameras and the rear camera, and to control the other one of the two display devices to display the second target image.

3. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein a detection angle of the two side cameras is larger than 90 degrees in a horizontal plane.

4. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein a detection angle of the two side cameras is larger than 120 degrees.

5. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the displayed spatial angle of the two side cameras in horizontal plane is smaller than 90 degrees.

6. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the displayed spatial angle of the two side cameras in horizontal plane is smaller than 60 degrees.

7. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the displayed spatial angle of the two side cameras in horizontal plane is smaller than 45 degrees.

8. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein a size of the first and second image regions is fixedly predefined.

9. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the processing device is configured to rectify the image data of the two side cameras.

10. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the processing device is configured to compress the image data of the two side cameras in horizontal direction to produce the image data of the second image region.

11. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the processing device, is configured to generate a marking in the first and second target image that marks a border between the first and the second image regions.

12. The motor vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first and second target images are respectively displayed over an entire respective surface of the two display devices.

13. The motor vehicle of claim 1, further comprising another rear area camera, wherein the first image region of the first target image displays image data of the rear area camera and the first image region of the second target image displays image data of the other rear area camera.