Viewing system and method for displaying an environment of a vehicle

US9865169B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Gassmann · Neuenbürg, DE
• Kay-Ulrich Scholl · Malsch, DE
• Johannes Quast · Karlsruhe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 2013
• Grant date: Jan 9, 2018
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2210/32
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Displaying an environment of a vehicle comprising recording an image of an adjacent exterior environment of the vehicle in the form of image data with the aid of a plurality of image capture units and displaying an output image with the aid of a display device. A virtual, three-dimensional space and a surface are determined with the aid of an arithmetic unit the virtual, three-dimensional space being at least partially delimited by the surface. A projection of the image data onto the surface is calculated with the aid of the arithmetic unit. A virtual vehicle object from predetermined data is calculated as a computer-generated graphic in the virtual, three-dimensional space with the aid of the arithmetic unit. The output image is generated with the aid of the arithmetic unit by rendering a viewing volume which includes the virtual vehicle object, the viewing volume being delimited by the surface, and the viewing volume being based on a viewing position and a viewing angle and a zoom factor in the virtual, three-dimensional space.