Patent ID: 7599546

Claim:
An image information processing system for processing an image of an object shot by two infrared cameras mounted in a vehicle and an image display device mounted thereon, and thereby displaying image information of the object on said image display device mounted on the vehicle comprising a computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program comprising: a first image area recognition unit for recognizing an image area according to the object as a first image area by performing two-dimensional image processing of the object shot by a first one of said infrared cameras; a second image area recognition unit for recognizing an image area according to the object as a second image area by performing three-dimensional image processing of the object stereographically shot by both of said infrared cameras; a variable measurement unit for measuring a variable whose value changes with a distance between the infrared cameras and the object; a weighting factor calculation unit for calculating a first weighting factor C 1 (0≦C 1 ≦1) having a property of increasing along with an increase in the distance according to the variable and calculating a second weighting factor C 2 (=1−C 1 ) having a property of increasing along with a decrease in the distance according to the variable, on the basis of the variable measured by the variable measurement unit; a composite image area recognition unit for recognizing a composite image area composed of a first two-dimensional image recognized by the first image area recognition unit being weighted by the first weighting factor C 1 and a second three-dimensional image recognized by the second image area recognition unit being weighted by the second weighting factor C 2 ; and an image information control unit for causing the image display device to display image information according to the composite image area recognized by the composite image area recognition unit.