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Granted Patent B2
US 11,587,267 · App. 17/231,908 · Granted Feb 21, 2023

Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, display system, and vehicle

Inventors: Tomohiro Shimazu (Yokohama, JP); Kazuya Takemoto (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
G06T11/001G06V20/58H04N5/2253H04N5/44504H04N7/183G06T2200/24
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Patent No.
US 11,587,267
App. No.
17/231,908
Granted
Feb 21, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging apparatus captures a rear area behind a vehicle and generates an image, and displays on the image at a position in the image corresponding to the position between the vehicle and a detection object a recognition image extending a predetermined distance in a height direction with respect to road surface and having transmittance that increases with height distance from the road surface. A display control apparatus simultaneously displays a bird's-eye view image of a vehicle, a rear area image behind the vehicle, and a guide image extending rearward and being spaced apart in the width direction of the vehicle, and displays an image on lower right or left of the bird's-eye view image based on a position of an obstacle existing on right or left rear side of the vehicle, and a second image on right edge or on left edge of the image outside the guide image.

Claims (14)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an image sensor configured to:

capture a rear area behind a vehicle, and

generate a video image showing the rear area and a detection object detected in the rear area; and

a controller configured to:

display, on the video image, a guide image that indicates a predicted path of the vehicle in the rear area, and

display, on the video image at a position in the video image corresponding to a position between the vehicle and the detection object, a recognition image that extends a predetermined distance in a height direction with respect to a road surface,

wherein a transmittance of the recognition image displayed on the video image increases from a portion of the recognition image closest to the road surface in the height direction to a portion of the recognition image furthest from the road surface in the height direction.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the recognition image is transparent at a top of the recognition image.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the recognition image is a virtual wall-like image.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

a top edge boundary of the recognition image is hidden.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2021
From: SHIMAZU, TOMOHIRO; TAKEMOTO, KAZUYA
To: KYOCERA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055935/0439 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-239449 · Dec 9, 2016 · national
JP 2016-245775 · Dec 19, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 16467715
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