Patent ID: 8694195

Claim:
A motor vehicle, comprising: a vehicle body; front wheels; a wheel-view camera with a wide-angle lens and an image sensor, said wheel-view camera being mounted on said vehicle body and pointing in a downward direction such that said wheel-view camera captures one of said front wheels; an image processing unit operatively connected to said wheel-view camera for receiving image data from said wheel-view camera, said image processing unit being configured to process the image data such that said image processing unit performs a wide-angle lens correction, an image rotation and a viewpoint conversion; a display unit operatively connected to said image processing unit, said display unit receiving processed image data from said image processing unit and displaying an image of said one of said front wheels; said vehicle body having a side view mirror with a housing; said wheel-view camera being mounted in said housing of said side view mirror; said image processing unit performing the viewpoint conversion such that said display unit displays an image having a virtual viewpoint positioned at a given distance away from said side view mirror and looking down toward said one of said front wheels; a control unit operatively connected to said image processing unit; vehicle sensors operatively connected to said control unit, said vehicle sensors providing vehicle sensor data to said control unit; said control unit controlling said image processing unit in dependence on the vehicle sensor data; said vehicle sensors including a steering angle sensor for providing steering angle data to said control unit; and said control unit controlling said image processing unit in dependence on the steering angle data such that said display unit displays a relatively smaller portion of a side of said vehicle body in case of a relatively smaller steering angle and such that said display unit displays a relatively larger portion of a side of said vehicle body in case of a relatively larger steering angle.