Patent ID: 8179241

Claim:
A vehicle-use visual field assistance system comprising: an information dispatch apparatus comprising a blind spot image acquisition unit comprising a ground-based camera positioned and oriented for capturing a blind-spot image showing a current condition of a region that is a blind spot with respect to a forward field of view of a driver of an object vehicle approaching the vicinity of a street intersection, means for receiving vehicle information transmitted from said object vehicle, said vehicle information comprising at least information expressing a forward-view image corresponding to said forward field of view of said driver and information expressing a current position of said object vehicle in relation to said ground-based camera, means for executing viewpoint conversion of said forward-view image and of said blind-spot image to a converted forward-view image and to a converted blind-spot image respectively, said converted forward-view image and said converted blind-spot image having a common viewpoint, and to combine said converted forward-view image and said converted blind-spot image into a synthesized image, and means for transmitting said synthesized image; a vehicle-mounted apparatus installed in said object vehicle, comprising means for receiving said synthesized image transmitted from said information dispatch apparatus, means for transmitting, said vehicle information to said information dispatch apparatus, and means for displaying said received synthesized image.