Patent ID: 9428110
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B60Q,B60R,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A visual system for a vehicle, comprising: a capturing unit mounted to the vehicle and provided with at least one capturing device, a calculation unit; and a display unit; wherein the capturing device is adapted to acquire a capturing region behind the vehicle, said region including at least one undistorted backward-directed capturing portion behind the vehicle, which portion is directed backward, and a downward-directed capturing portion behind the vehicle, which portion is directed downward, wherein the visual system is adapted to extract a first image from the undistorted backward-directed capturing portion, which first image corresponds to the undistorted backward-directed capturing portion, and a second image, which corresponds to the downward-directed capturing portion, and to display the first image in an upper image portion and the second image in a lower image portion on the display unit, wherein the visual system adapts the size of the first and second extracted images by adjusting a capturing angle in the vertical direction in dependence upon the driving direction and/or the driving speed, wherein the downward-directed capturing portion shows more distortion than the backward-directed capturing portion, and wherein, when the vehicle is driving in reverse direction, the lower image portion is larger than in a case when the vehicle is driving in forward direction and, when the vehicle is driving in a forward direction, the upper image portion is correspondingly larger than it is in a case when the vehicle is driving in reverse direction.