Patent ID: 9672432
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: B60R,G06K,G06T,G08G,H04N

Claim:
1. An image generation device configured to output, as a displaying image, a bird's-eye view image generated by projection transformation at an upper virtual viewpoint of a photographed image obtained by an in-vehicle camera for photographing a peripheral area of a vehicle, the image generation device comprising: an ECU configured to: recognize a 3D object present in the peripheral area and output 3D object attribute information representing attribute of the 3D object; determine a 3D object image area which is an image area of the 3D object in the photographed image based on position information included in the 3D object attribute information; output at least one of a substitute image of the 3D object colored with a color based on color information included in the 3D object attribute information and a substitute image of the 3D object with a directional posture identified for the 3D object identified based on type information and directional posture information included in the 3D object attribute information; generate a bird's-eye view image synthesized and attached with a substitute image output from the ECU at a position in the 3D object image area; and divide the 3D object into areas along a height direction from a road surface or a horizontal direction, and color each area with an average color of the area or a representative color of the area.