Patent Document ID: 8988525
Application ID: 12548639
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for providing guidance information to a driver of a vehicle, comprising: an image capture device configured to acquire an image of the vicinity of the vehicle; an object sensor configured to detect an object near the vehicle and determine a distance between the object and the vehicle; a processing unit connected to the image capture device and to the object sensor, the processing unit configured to produce a simulated image that appears as if it was captured from a simulated image capture device located directly above the vehicle, by orthogonally projecting the acquired image and combine the simulated image with the acquired image in a proportion and having a simulated angle of observation that is determined by the distance between the object and the vehicle to produce an output image that appears to have been taken by an image capture device in a direction that is between that of the actual image capture device and the simulated image capture device; and an image display unit connected to the processing unit and configured to display the output image produced by the processing unit.