METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING THE SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE

摘要

The invention relates to a method for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle (1) comprising the following steps: determining and saving a current distance between the vehicle (1) and obstacles (6 60 61 62 63 64 65 66) present in the surroundings of the vehicle by means of at least one sensor; determining and saving a current position of the vehicle; calculating an at least two dimensional surroundings model from the saved data; calculating a virtual view (30) of the surroundings model from a selected virtual observer position (3); recording a video representation of at least one part of the surroundings by means of at least one video camera (2) and integrating the video representation (30) into the virtual view (30); and outputting the virtual view having the integrated video representation to a driver of the vehicle (1).