Patent ID: 7518490
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: B60R,B62D,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring around a vehicle by using plural cameras with a range measurement function for finding a distance to an object based on an image, comprising the steps of: capturing range images, which include the distance to the object for every pixel, from the cameras which are provided on plural positions of the vehicle, creating a location-allocation model of the object which is found in the range images and which is larger than a predetermined threshold value, inputting vehicle speed, acceleration, and steering angle values, calculating running paths of plural predetermined representative points of the vehicle, checking whether the running paths of the vehicle cross the object in the location-allocation model, and displaying the object and a part of the vehicle which may hit the object and which corresponds to the predetermined representative point of the vehicle when one of the running paths of the vehicle cross the object.