Patent ID: 11926263
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A vehicle surrounding area display method for generating and displaying an overhead image including a vehicle and a vehicle surrounding area, the vehicle surrounding area display method comprising:
acquiring image information of a plurality of taken images of the vehicle surrounding area, object information including position information of an object in the vehicle surrounding area, and vehicle traveling information including a traveling direction and a speed of the vehicle;
converting each of the acquired plurality of images into an image for an overhead image;
detecting a road surface color of an overlapping portion when the object exists in said overlapping portion of the plurality of images and a distance between the object and the vehicle is within a threshold;
dividing the overlapping portion in the image for an overhead image into a road surface image and an object image on the basis of the detected road surface color;
combining all or part of the image for an overhead image and the road surface image and the object image, to generate the overhead image; and
displaying the generated overhead image.