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

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle surrounding area image generation device for generating an overhead image including a vehicle and a vehicle surrounding area, on the basis of a plurality of images taken by a plurality of imaging devices mounted on the vehicle, the vehicle surrounding area image generation device comprising:
an object distance determining circuitry to determine whether a distance between an object and the vehicle is within a threshold, on the basis of object information acquired by a sensor for detecting the object in the vehicle surrounding area;
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.