| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a "vehicle-periphery image generating apparatus and method of correcting distortion of a vehicle-periphery image" in which distortion of an obstacle image appearing in the vehicle-periphery image is corrected after viewpoint conversion, so that visual discomfort experienced by the driver is reduced. SOLUTION: Images around a vehicle are captured by a plurality of cameras 1a-1d, and an obstacle around the vehicle is detected by an ultrasonic sensor 2. When the obstacle is detected, a width of an image portion in the region positioned on the far side of the obstacle, watched from the vehicle, among camera images around the vehicle captured by a camera in a direction where the obstacle is detected, is compressed in the center direction of the images to generate the vehicle-periphery image. As a result, when a three-dimensional obstacle around the present vehicle appears in a camera image, the camera image is viewpoint-converted so that the obstacle can be suppressed from being an image enlarged to fall down on the far side, when watched from the present vehicle. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
|
