Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jumpei Inagaki

Tomohito Higuma

Yuki Takahashi

Tomoaki Iida

Yohei Satomi

Atsutoshi Sakaguchi

Yosuke Kubota

Yasuharu Takeuchi

Kazuya Fujii

An image control system includes a rear camera, a left rear (right rear) camera, a display device, and an image control device for generating a combined image and displaying the combined image on the display device. The image control device identifies a rear target object and a left rear (right rear) target object which are closest to the vehicle in an own lane and a left lane (right lane), respectively, and changes a magnitude of the rear left-side (right-side) azimuth angle being an azimuth angle of a left (right) boundary line defining a horizontal angle of view of a rear effective range based on a combination of presence or absence of the rear target object and a level of closeness to this object and presence or absence of the left rear (right rear) target object and a level of closeness to this object.

Image control system

In a first case a trimmed image generating section carries out trimming such that respective lateral direction lengths of a rear processed image and rear lateral processed images in the combined image are equal, and in a second case in which the trimmed image generating section judges that there is information that is included in the images of the first overlapping regions and is not included in the images of the second overlapping regions and information that should be included in the combined image, the trimmed image generating section carries out trimming such that the information that should be included in the combined image remains in the rear lateral processed images, and, as compared with the first case, the lateral direction length of the rear processed image in the combined image is short, and the lateral direction lengths of the rear lateral processed images in the combined image are long.

Vehicle periphery monitoring device

A vehicle periphery monitoring device includes a plurality of sensors including a rear camera, a rear right-side camera, and a rear left-side camera, a display unit that is provided inside a vehicle cabin, memory, and a processor that is coupled to the memory. The processor is configured so as to acquire a rear image that includes a first image of a vehicle rear side acquired by the rear camera, a second image of a vehicle rear right-side acquired by the rear right-side camera, and a third image of a vehicle rear left-side acquired by the rear left-side camera, acquire from the plurality of sensors relative positions of a target that is present in areas including the vehicle rear side, the vehicle rear right-side, and the vehicle rear left-side relative to a host vehicle, determine whether or not the acquired relative positions of the target are mutually consistent with each other in the plurality of sensors, display a single composite image that is created by combining the first image, the second image, and the third image at the display unit in a case in which it is determined that the relative positions of the target are mutually consistent with each other, and display the first image, the second image, and the third image individually and adjacently to each other on the display unit in a case in which it is determined that the relative positions of the target are not mutually consistent with each other.

Vehicle periphery monitoring device, vehicle periphery monitoring method and non-transitory storage medium

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Jumpei Inagaki