Patent ID: 11863900
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 10:
11. An image generation apparatus comprising:
a non-transitory memory storing one or more computer programs;
a processor executing the one or more computer programs to:
acquire, from at least one camera operable to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle, a captured image;
generate a bird's-eye view image from the captured image;
recognize a specific three-dimensional object that is a pedestrian or a two-wheeled vehicle in the captured image; and
superimpose, onto the bird's-eye view image, a portion of the captured image that represents the specific three-dimensional object, at a position where the specific three-dimensional object is present in the bird's-eye view image,
wherein
the processor further executes one or more programs to,
in response to the recognized three-dimensional object being a non-specific three-dimensional object other than the specific three-dimensional object, retrieve a substitute image of the non-specific three-dimensional object from a storage medium in which various substitute images are pre-stored, and
superimpose the retrieved substitute image onto the bird's-eye view image, at a position where the non-specific three-dimensional object is present in the bird's-eye view image.