Image processor and monitoring system
US6912001B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 25, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jun 28, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 8, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB60R2300/303
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In an image processor for synthesizing images that have been taken by multiple cameras mounted on a vehicle, even if any movable part of the vehicle has changed its state, the synthesized image will have no unnatural part. A pixel synthesizer receives the images that have been captured by the cameras included in an imaging section and generates the synthesized image by reference to a mapping table. Receiving a signal indicative of the state of a movable part such as the door or hood of the vehicle, a display mode changer disables at least one of the cameras that is taking an image to be affected by any change in the state of the movable part. For that purpose, the changer rewrites mapping data stored on the mapping table and thereby eliminates the image in question from the synthesized image.
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