Patent ID: 8094970
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A road image generating system comprising: relative position identifying means that uses an optical system fixed to a vehicle to film a standard pattern in a particular positional relationship from said vehicle, and on the basis of said standard pattern filmed, identifies the relative position, from said vehicle, of road surface portions that are to be depicted by particular pixels of images filmed by said optical system; vehicle position identifying means that identifies said vehicle's position during filming by said optical system; means that, on the basis of said vehicle position identifying means and said relative position identifying means, identifies the absolute positions of road surface portions that are depicted by particular pixels in the road surface images filmed by said optical system, and generates road images by synthesizing the road surface portions for which said absolute positions have been identified; and blending means that, when there exist multiple pixels of images filmed by said optical system that depict road surface portions with identical absolute positions, blends display contents of said pixels of images filmed by said optical system.