Image processing device
An image processing device includes a frame memory, an image input unit, an image quality converter that converts, on a frame basis, image quality of image information stored in the frame memory, an image output unit that reads the image information from the frame memory and outputs the image information to a display device, a controller that controls a function of the image quality converter based on a traveling state of the vehicle and changes a frame delay amount from when each of frames of the image information is received until when the frame is outputted from the image output unit, and an interpolation frame setting unit that sets an interpolation frame of the image information to be outputted in a transition period in which the controller changes the frame delay amount from a first frame delay amount to a second frame delay amount.
1. An image processing device comprising:
a frame memory in which image information is stored on a frame basis;
at least one processor; and
at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing at least one program that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the image processing device to:
receive and store the image information about a captured image of a surrounding of a traveling vehicle in the frame memory;
convert, on the frame basis, an image quality of the image information stored in the frame memory;
read the image information from the frame memory and output the image information to a display device;
control a conversion of the image quality of the image information based on a traveling state of the vehicle and change a frame delay amount from when each of frames of the image information is received until when each of the frames is output;
set an interpolation frame of the image information to be output in a transition period and change the frame delay amount from a first frame delay amount to a second frame delay amount in the transition period; and
output a frame of the image information having the second frame delay amount after outputting the image information about the interpolation frame in the transition period.
2. The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one program causes the image processing device to convert the image quality of the image information when a vehicle speed of the vehicle is less than a predetermined speed, and to not convert the image quality of the image information when the vehicle speed of the vehicle is greater than or equal to the predetermined speed.
3. The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one program causes the image processing device to newly generate a frame based on the image information stored in the frame memory, and to set the frame as the interpolation frame.
4. The image processing device according to claim 3 , wherein the at least one program causes the image processing device to set the interpolation frame such that the frame delay amount changes stepwise from the first frame delay amount to the second frame delay amount.
5. The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one program causes the image processing device to reproduce a frame of the image information stored in the frame memory, and to set the reproduced frame as the interpolation frame.
6. The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one program causes the image processing device to detect whether any other vehicle is in the captured image based on the image information stored in the frame memory and to change the frame delay amount based on a detection result.
7. The image processing device according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one program causes the image processing device to at least one of change the frame delay amount when no other vehicle is detected in the captured image, or change the frame delay amount when no other vehicle is detected within a given distance from the vehicle.