Patent ID: 9208686
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: B60R,G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle rear monitor comprising: a camera mounted on a vehicle and capturing an image of a rear side thereof; an image output unit displaying at least a top-down view or a perspective view generated by processing the image of the rear side of the vehicle; a gear detection unit detecting a gear selected through a transmission; and an image display control unit having an image switching unit, wherein when said gear detection unit has detected that a reverse gear is selected, said image output unit displays any one of a top-down view, perspective view or a desired rear view other than said top-down view or said perspective view as arbitrarily selected through said image switching unit, when said gear detection unit has detected that said reverse gear is changed to be taken out of gear once, said image output unit displays a type of view prior to selection of said reverse gear having been detected through said image switching unit, when said gear detection unit has detected that said reverse gear is again selected after being taken out of gear once and that the vehicle is found to run forward at a speed not faster than a predetermined speed between a time point when said reverse gear is taken out and a time point when said reverse gear is again selected, as detected also by said gear detection unit, said image output unit displays a type of view of the rear side of the vehicle prior to taking out of said reverse gear through said image switching unit, and when said gear detection unit has detected that said reverse gear is again selected after being taken out of gear once and that the vehicle is found to run forward at a speed faster than the predetermined speed between the time point when said reverse gear is taken out and the time point when said reverse gear is again selected, as detected by said gear detection unit, said image output unit displays said desired rear view through said image switching unit.