VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING SYSTEM

摘要

Provided is a vehicle periphery monitoring system that facilitates a driver's understanding about a photographing direction of an object which appears in an overlapping area of a bird's-eye view image generated from multiple photographed images. A displaying bird's-eye view image is generated by combining bird's-eye view image segments generated from the multiple photographed images photographed in a partially overlapping manner with superimposing mutually overlapped areas thereof. In displaying the displaying bird's-eye view image, a boundary-added bird's-eye view image formed by adding a boundary indicator to the overlapping area of the bird's-eye view image is displayed on a display unit; then, a merged superimposed image is displayed. The merged superimposed image is obtained by merging the overlapped areas of the bird's-eye view image according to a preset merger relationship.

主权项

1. A vehicle periphery monitoring system comprising:
a bird's-eye view image generation section generating bird's-eye view image segments from multiple photographed images photographed to be partially overlapped in a vehicle circumference direction; a boundary indicator addition section adding a boundary indicator indicating a boundary area of the bird's-eye view image segments adjacent each other to an overlapped area of the bird's-eye view image segments; a merger section generating a merged overlapped image by merging mutually overlapped areas of the bird's-eye view image segments according to a preset merger relationship; a displaying bird's-eye view image generation section generating a merged bird's-eye view image containing a boundary-added bird's-eye view image having the boundary indicator and the merged overlapped image as a displaying bird's-eye view image; a displaying section displaying the displaying bird's-eye view image; and a displaying image determination section displaying the merged bird's-eye view image in the displaying section after displaying the boundary-added bird's-eye view image therein.