Patent ID: 11910123
Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A vehicular vision system, the vehicular vision system comprising:
a first camera disposed at a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system and viewing exterior of the vehicle, wherein the first camera comprises a first two dimensional array of photosensing pixels, and wherein the first camera captures frames of first image data;
a second camera disposed at the vehicle and viewing exterior of the vehicle, wherein the second camera comprises a second two dimensional array of photosensing pixels, and wherein the second camera captures frames of second image data, and wherein a field of view of the first camera partially overlaps the field of view of the second camera;
an electronic control unit (ECU) comprising electronic circuitry and associated software;
wherein the electronic circuitry of the ECU comprises an image processor for processing frames of first image data captured by the first camera and frames of second image data captured by the second camera;
a video display disposed in the vehicle and operable to display video images derived from frames of first image data captured by the first camera and frames of second image data captured by the second camera;
wherein, responsive to a view selection input selecting a view for the video display, the vehicular vision system (i) determines a first subset of the first two dimensional array of photosensing pixels based on tracing rays from pixels of the video display using the selected view to the first two dimensional array of photosensing pixels, and (ii) determines a second subset of the second two dimensional array of photosensing pixels based on tracing rays from pixels of the video display using the selected view to the second two dimensional array of photosensing pixels;
wherein the vehicular vision system, while capturing first frames of first image data with the first camera, buffers the first subset of the first two dimensional array of photosensing pixels of each first frame of first image data;
wherein the vehicular vision system, while capturing second frames of second image data with the second camera, buffers the second subset of the second two dimensional array of photosensing pixels of each second frame of second image data;
wherein the vehicular vision system, using the ECU, generates display frames of image data using the buffered first subset of the first two dimensional array of photosensing pixels of the first frames of first image data and the buffered second subset of the second two dimensional array of photosensing pixels of the second frames of second image data, and wherein at least one pixel of the display frames of image data is derived from a plurality of pixels of the first two dimensional array of photosensing pixels; and
wherein the video display displays video images derived from the display frames of image data.