Patent ID: 7982591

Claim:
A system applicable to a vehicle for detecting a surrounding environment, comprising: a primary display unit disposed in the vehicle; a plurality of secondary display units disposed in the vehicle and corresponding in direction to obstacles to be detected; a plurality of different types of detectors disposed around the vehicle for detecting positions of the obstacles around the vehicle and relative to the detectors, generating and outputting first detector data according to the positions detected; and a primary control module electrically connected to the primary display unit, the secondary display units and the detectors, and configured for receiving the first detector data, performing data fusion on the first detector data received so as to generate second detector data, generating primary warning messages including positional information of a center of the vehicle relative to the obstacles and secondary warning messages including positional information of the obstacles according to the second detector data, sending the primary warning messages to the primary display unit to display the primary warning messages thereon, and sending the secondary warning messages to the secondary display units corresponding thereto, respectively, to display the secondary warning messages thereon according to the positional information of the obstacles, wherein the data fusion is performed to convert the positional information of the obstacles relative to the detectors and comprised in the first detector data into the positional information of the obstacles relative to the center of the vehicle, wherein the data fusion further comprises homogeneous fusion performed on the first detector data attributable to same detection media and same detection principles, and heterogeneous fusion performed on the first detector data attributable to different detection media and different detection principles.