Image processor and monitoring system
    3.
    发明授权
    Image processor and monitoring system 有权
    图像处理器和监控系统

    公开(公告)号:US06912001B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-28

    申请号:US09866082

    申请日:2001-05-25

    摘要: 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.

    摘要翻译: 在用于合成由安装在车辆上的多个摄像机拍摄的图像的图像处理器中,即使车辆的任何可移动部分已经改变其状态,合成图像将不会有不自然的部分。 像素合成器接收由成像部分所包含的相机拍摄的图像,并参照映射表生成合成图像。 接收到指示诸如车辆的门或罩的可移动部件的状态的信号时,显示模式改变器禁止正在拍摄图像的至少一个相机受到可移动部件的状态的任何改变的影响 。 为此,更换器重写存储在映射表上的映射数据,从而从合成图像中消除所讨论的图像。

    Monitoring system
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US07027616B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-04-11

    申请号:US09898335

    申请日:2001-07-03

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    CPC分类号: G06T15/20 G06T7/30

    摘要: In transmitting image data from multiple cameras to an image processing section to produce a synthesized image from respective camera images, the amount of data transmitted through a transmission path can be cut down without sacrificing the quality of the synthesized image. In accordance with a correspondence between the synthesized and camera images as described on a mapping table, a resolution specifier specifies resolutions, which should be necessary for image synthesis, for respective areas of each camera image. A compressor, provided for each of the cameras, compresses the associated camera image data according to the resolutions specified. In this manner, the image data, which has been compressed in accordance with the correspondence between the synthesized and camera images, is transmitted through the transmission path.

    Vehicle surroundings display device and image providing system
    8.
    发明授权
    Vehicle surroundings display device and image providing system 有权
    车辆周边显示装置和图像提供系统

    公开(公告)号:US07176959B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-02-13

    申请号:US10237514

    申请日:2002-09-09

    IPC分类号: H04N7/18

    CPC分类号: G01S11/12 G01S17/936

    摘要: In the vehicle surroundings display device of the invention, an image processor generates an image showing the situation around a vehicle. When an obstacle is detected by an obstacle detection means, the image processor determines an image missing region using the position of the border of the obstacle on the vehicle side detected by an obstacle position detection means and fills the image missing region with substitute image data. This eliminates unnaturalness of a display image the user may feel and enables the user to accurately recognize the position of a neighboring obstacle that is important in driving operation.

    摘要翻译: 在本发明的车辆周边显示装置中,图像处理器生成表示车辆周围的情况的图像。 当障碍物检测装置检测到障碍物时,图像处理器使用由障碍物位置检测装置检测到的车辆侧的障碍物的边界的位置来确定图像丢失区域,并用替代图像数据填充图像丢失区域。 这消除了用户可能感觉到的显示图像的不自然,并且使用户能够准确地识别在驾驶操作中重要的相邻障碍物的位置。

    Method and apparatus for displaying a synthesized image viewed from a virtual point of view
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for displaying a synthesized image viewed from a virtual point of view 有权
    从虚拟视点来显示合成图像的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07307655B1

    公开(公告)日:2007-12-11

    申请号:US09744787

    申请日:1999-07-29

    IPC分类号: H04N5/228

    摘要: An image generating apparatus comprising: a camera or a plurality of cameras; space reconstructing means for mapping the input image from said camera, into a predetermined space model of a predetermined three-dimensional space; point-of-view converting means of synthesizing an image viewed from an arbitrary virtual point of view in said predetermined three-dimensional space by referencing to said space data mapped by said space reconstructing means; and displaying means of displaying the image converted by said point-of-view converting means.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像产生装置,包括:相机或多个相机; 用于将来自所述摄像机的输入图像映射到预定三维空间的预定空间模型中的空间重建装置; 视点转换装置,其通过参考由所述空间重建装置映射的所述空间数据来合成从所述预定三维空间中的任意虚拟视点观看的图像; 以及显示装置,用于显示由所述视点转换装置转换的图像。