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

Claim 8:
9. A vehicle surrounding area display system comprising: a plurality of imaging devices, mounted on a vehicle, for taking an image of a vehicle surrounding area; a sensor for detecting an object in the vehicle surrounding area; a vehicle surrounding area image generation device for generating an overhead image including the vehicle and the vehicle surrounding area, on the basis of a plurality of images taken by the imaging devices; and a display for displaying the overhead image generated by the vehicle surrounding area image generation device, wherein
the vehicle surrounding area image generation device includes
an object distance determining circuitry to determine whether a distance between the object and the vehicle is within a threshold, on the basis of object information acquired by the sensor,
an image converting circuitry to convert each of the plurality of images into an image for an overhead image,
an image dividing circuitry to divide an overlapping portion in the image for an overhead image into a road surface image and an object image when the object exists in said overlapping portion of imaging areas of the plurality of imaging devices, and
an image combining circuitry to combine all or part of the image for an overhead image obtained by the image converting circuitry and the road surface image and the object image obtained by the image dividing circuitry respectively, to generate the overhead image.