Patent ID: 8179435
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surroundings image providing system which provides a driver with an image obtained by photographing an area around a vehicle, the system comprising: a photographing unit which photographs an area around the vehicle which includes a first region corresponding to a blind spot created by a component of the vehicle; an image processing unit which processes an image of the area around the vehicle photographed by the photographing unit; and a display unit which displays the image processed by the image processing unit, and is provided on the component of the vehicle creating the blind spot, wherein the image processing unit performs coordinate transformation for the image photographed by the photographing unit based on first information of space coordinates corresponding to a point-of-sight position of the driver in a coordinate system fixed to the vehicle and second information of space coordinates of each pixel constituting a display screen of the display unit in the coordinate system fixed to the vehicle, and the image displayed by the display unit corresponds to a view of the first region as would be seen directly from the point-of-sight position of the driver, if the display unit and the component of the vehicle were transparent.