Method and device for processing images from image data

US9521400B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Reicher · Grafing, DE
• Guenter Bauer · Sulzbach-Rosenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 19, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 13, 2016
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2300/105
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Image data of respective images are recorded by multiple cameras that are arranged on a vehicle. A geometry of a three-dimensional environment model is provided, which has a level ground region that lies in a ground plane of the vehicle and which has a surface that has a ground surface of the level ground region and that encloses an ambient space, which also includes the vehicle. The image data of the respective images of the various cameras are projected on the surface of the three-dimensional environment model as environment model image data. Image data to be signaled of an image to be displayed from a view of a virtual camera on to the surface of the three-dimensional environment model are determined. This occurs, for a view that includes at least a portion of the vehicle, in the sense that a specified representative object of the vehicle is embedded in the three-dimensional environment model and at least a partial region of the representative object is transparently displayed such that the view through the partial region on to a respective partial surface region of the surface of the three-dimensional environment model is made possible.