PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "284000"]

Abstract:
An image recognition unit recognizes an object in each image captured by a plurality of imaging devices each imaging a partial overlapped imaging region surrounding a vehicle. An image synthesis unit generates a synthesized image by partially overlapping and joining converted images viewed from preset virtual viewpoints, when an imaging region including the recognized object is an overlapping region of which any one of two imaging devices performs imaging. The image synthesis unit synthesizes each converted image area in the overlapping image regions, using a preset blend ratio when an image of the converted images which are joined to partially overlap is generated. An image-setting unit sets the blend ratio of each converted image in the overlapping image regions for recognition results of an object, and a driving support image synthesized with the set blend ratio is output to a display apparatus.

Claim (Index 1):
A display control apparatus mounted in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of imaging devices provided on the vehicle to capture a preset plurality of imaging regions which overlap in part, surrounding the vehicle, by dividing the imaging regions among the respective imaging devices; an image recognition unit which recognizes a predetermined object in images captured by of each of the plurality of imaging devices; an image synthesis unit which synthesizes an image to a converted image viewed from a virtual viewpoint which is preset, for each image captured by two imaging devices when the imaging regions which include the object recognized by the image recognition unit are overlapping imaging regions in which both of two imaging devices captures images; an image-setting unit which sets a blend ratio of each converted image area in the overlapping image regions based on a recognition result of the object recognized by the image recognition unit, and an image-outputting unit which outputs the synthesized image as a driving support image to a display mounted in a vehicle, the synthesized image being synthesized from each converted image area in the overlapping image regions, using the image synthesis unit, and the blend ratio of the each converted image being preset by the image-setting unit, wherein, the image synthesis unit synthesizes each converted image area in the overlapping image regions of two converted images overlapping, using a preset blend ratio, to generate a synthesized image by overlapping to join each converted image, and the image-setting unit is configured to set the blend ratio of a converted image area higher than the blend ratio of other conversion image areas, for a captured image in which predetermined object position conditions which relate to an object position are satisfied, among each converted image area in the overlapping image regions, a distance of the object position from a center of each captured image of the two imaging devices being compared, and the shorter the distance of the object is from the center of the image, the higher the blend ratio of the image is set, when the blend ratio of the converted image is set higher than the blend ratio of other conversion image areas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12857
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15749631', '13582494', '11972174', '11942386', '14015735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2886927510516301
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.511419204124452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3109653963589123
- Mean Citation Score: 212.072448
- Max Citation Score: 300.17035
- Similarity Product: 260.8093758126497

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test