Patent Document ID: 20150084755
Application ID: 14033586
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A driver assistance system configured to display on a vehicle display an image of corresponding surroundings of a vehicle, the driver assistance system comprising: at least one image capturing camera configured to capture images of surroundings of a vehicle; a viewpoint converter configured to perform viewpoint conversion on the images to generate a viewpoint converted image having a point of view looking downwardly from above the vehicle; at least one sensor configured to detect a distance or a partial shape of at least one object in surroundings of the vehicle; and an image processor configured to modify the viewpoint converted image based on the detected distance or the partial shape of the at least one object looking from the vehicle to the at least one object, wherein the modification of the viewpoint converted image includes enhancing a three dimensional appearance of the at least one object in the viewpoint converted image, wherein the system is configured to enhance the three dimensional appearance of the viewpoint converted image by: generating a three dimensional landscape of at least a section of the vehicle surroundings based on the received sensor data; and mapping the viewpoint converted image on the generated three dimensional landscape, wherein the generating of the three dimensional landscape creates a mesh of detected objects in the vehicle surroundings, wherein the shape of the landscape is approximated by mesh areas, each mesh area having a space orientation that is taken into consideration when mapping images of the surrounding of the vehicle into the mesh areas.