Patent ID: 8018490
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surrounding image display device mounted on a vehicle, the device comprising: a first camera for taking a first image behind the vehicle from a central position in the width direction of the vehicle; a second camera for taking a second image behind the vehicle from a position off the center in the width direction of the vehicle; image deformation means for deforming the second image taken by the second camera such that at least a portion of the inner side in the vehicle width direction of the second image lower than the vanishing point in the second image is inclined to make the lower portion of the inner side located more outward in the vehicle width direction than the upper portion of the inner side, and that the inclination is gradually increased toward the lower end of the inner side; image synthesis means for adjusting the second image deformed by the image deformation means and the first image taken by the first camera such that the scale of an object matches between the first and second images, and for generating a synthetic image combining the first and second images such that the vanishing point in the first image and the vanishing point in the second image are at the same height in the vertical direction; and a display device for displaying the synthetic image generated by the image synthesis means.