Patent ID: 8503729
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a detecting unit which detects a position of an object included within an overlapping region of a first image corresponding to a traveling direction of a vehicle or an opposite direction to the traveling direction and a second image corresponding to a direction crossing the traveling direction of the vehicle; a processing unit which assigns the first image a first evaluation value when the object is in a first position, and a second evaluation value, which is smaller than the first evaluation value, when the object is in a second position, of which a distance from a traveling direction axis of the vehicle is larger than the same of the first position, and assigns the second image a third evaluation value when the object is in the first position, and a fourth evaluation value, which is larger than the third evaluation value, when the object is in the second position; a determining unit which determines a boundary of the first and second images for joining the first and second images, so that the object is included within either of the first and second images, which has a larger evaluation value than the other; and a generating unit which joins the first and second images along the boundary and generates an image, in which a region around the vehicle is viewed from a prescribed view point.