Patent ID: 7511734
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: B60R,G06T

Abstract:
1. A monitoring apparatus comprising: at least one of fish-eye camera mounted on a moving body, to image a fish-eye image around the moving body; a dewarping unit configured to convert at least part of the fish-eye image obtained by the fish-eye camera into a two-dimensional image using a dewarping parameter; a conversion parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a conversion parameter for obtaining a bird's-eye view image from the two-dimensional image, showing an image from a hypothetical position looking down on the moving body; a bird's-eye view image creation unit configured to create a bird's-eye view image by sequentially fetching position data corresponding to each pixel of the bird's-eye view image using the conversion parameter and the dewarping conversion parameter; and a display device to display the bird's-eye view image created by the image creation unit.