Patent ID: 9117123
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: B60R,G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A vehicular display system, comprising: a display monitor; a camera mounted at a rear of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular display system, wherein the camera has a field of view rearward of the equipped vehicle and is operable to capture image data and to generate a video signal indicative of the captured image data; a controller receiving an input indicative of the video signal and, responsive thereto, providing video information for displaying video images on the display monitor; wherein, responsive to the input and responsive to vehicle speed data of the equipped vehicle being indicative of the equipped vehicle moving rearwardly at a speed greater than zero, the controller is operable to perform an integrity check to ensure that video information provided to the display monitor is not compromised; wherein the integrity check determines that video information provided to the display monitor is compromised via a determination, when the equipped vehicle is moving in reverse, that video information provided to the display monitor comprises a frozen image; wherein, responsive to the controller determining that video information provided to the display monitor comprises a frozen image, the controller generates an alert to a driver of the equipped vehicle; and wherein a threshold level of change in captured image data at which the video information is determined to comprise a frozen image varies with the vehicle speed.