Patent ID: 8169480

Claim:
Method for producing a chronological sequence of images of a motor vehicle and of the adjacent environment from a virtual elevated central perspective (P v ) above the motor vehicle on a display device ( 5 ), wherein a. a plurality of real recording camera devices ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) are used to record a chronological sequence of subimage data records (DR 1 . . . N ) with coded subimages ( 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ) from a plurality of real perspectives (P 1 . . . 4 ) which are differently offset and/or tilted with respect to the virtual perspective (P v ), b. differently parametrized transformations (T 1 . . . 4 ) are applied to the image data (DR i,1 . . . 4 ) from each subimage data record (DR i ) in an image data processing device ( 5 ) in order to obtain a sequence of transformed subimage data records (DT 1 . . . N ), c. the sequence of the transformed subimage data records (DT 1 . . . N ) is assembled to form a sequence of overall image data (DG 1 . . . N ) for an overall image ( 11 ) from the virtual perspective (P v ), and d. the overall image data (DG i ) from the sequence of the overall image data (DG 1 . . . N ) are successively displayed on a display device ( 6 ), e. characterized in that a selection unit ( 6 ) is used to recurrently apply a selection criterion (C) in order to select from the sequence of subimage data records (DR 1 . . . N ) a subimage data record (DR k ) for which the parameters of the transformations (T 1 . . . 4 ) are redetermined by an optimization method using a quality criterion (Q) for the overall image.