Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nissan Motor Corp.

Tatsumi Yanai

Satoshi Chinomi

Masami Funakawa

An image display system provided on a vehicle, which takes a side-rear view image of a first area alongside and to the rear of the vehicle, computes running conditions of the vehicle and an obstacle in the first area using the side-rear view image, determines a time point to start displaying the side-rear view image based on the computed running conditions, and presents the side-rear view image at the time point.

Vehicular image display system and image display control method

An image processing device and method for parking support that allows the driver to perceive the state surrounding the vehicle correctly in a simple operation even if plural cameras are carried on the vehicle. Plural images are acquired using plural cameras for image pickup in different directions surrounding the vehicle. These images are used to show the state surrounding the vehicle to the driver, preferably in the form of a bird's-eye view. The view seen by the driver can switch from the bird's-eye view to an image of a desired view. This view can be selected by the driver by, for example, touching the screen upon which the bird's-eye view is displayed.

Image processing device and method for parking support

A vehicle surroundings display unit, including: 1) a pick-up unit for picking up a video of vehicle surroundings; 2) an approaching vehicle sensor for sensing, based on the video picked up by the pick-up unit, an approaching vehicle which is approaching a subject vehicle; 3) a display processor for displaying the approaching vehicle sensed by the approaching vehicle sensor while distinguishing the approaching vehicle from an obstacle which is not approaching the subject vehicle; 4) a display unit for displaying the video which has undergone the displaying operation by the display processor; and 5) a frequency decomposing unit to make the following operations: decomposing a time-varying component of a pixel of the picked-up video for each frequency, extracting the pixel having a frequency of the time-varying component higher than a certain frequency, and of the thus extracted pixels of the picked up video, displaying the pixels in a vehicle area.

Vehicle surroundings display unit and a method of displaying vehicle surroundings

A driving support apparatus of the present invention comprises an imaging device which picks up a peripheral image of a vehicle, a detecting device which detects action information of a moving object present around the vehicle, an information generating device which generates determination supporting information for supporting determinations at the time of driving the vehicle based on the action information; an information combining device which combines the determination supporting information with the peripheral image; and a display device which displays the peripheral image combined with the determination supporting information.

Driving support apparatus

A vehicle surrounding area imaging system is configured to allow a driver to easily view and verify an image surrounding a peripheral side of the vehicle. The vehicle surrounding area imaging system basically has two cameras, a navigation system, a startup imaging determination unit and a monitor. The cameras take images of the areas to the sides of the vehicle to acquire images. The navigation system detects the current position of the vehicle. The startup imaging determination unit detects predetermined road regions that requires an image to be displayed from the periphery around the vehicle based on the current position detected by the navigation system as well as map information. The monitor selectively displays the images acquired by the cameras before the vehicle enters into one of the predetermined road region that requires an image display.

Vehicle surrounding area image system

A navigation device is configured to provide a suitable route that appropriately guides a vehicle to a user outside the vehicle even when the user has moved. The navigation device detects a current vehicle position using a GPS signal receiving section that temporarily stores the vehicle position. The navigation device is configured to receive a signal containing position information from a portable telephone terminal. Then, the navigation device sets the stored position of the portable telephone terminal as the current destination, and calculates a recommended route to the destination. The navigation device communicates with the portable communication terminal to acquire updated position information. Then, the navigation device updates the destination based on the updated position information, and recalculates the recommended route from the current position to the updated destination.

Navigation device

A system for providing information to a drive of a vehicle, including information providing apparatus and information presenting apparatus. Information providing apparatus includes means for storing information data about a facility with a parking lot, means for measuring vehicle speed of the vehicle traveling into the parking lot, means for selecting an objective information data to be provided to the driver from the stored information data on the basis of the vehicle speed measured, and means for transmitting the objective information data selected to the vehicle. Information presenting apparatus includes means for receiving the objective information data transmitted, means for storing the objective information data received, means for sensing vehicle speed, means for selecting an information data from the stored objective information data on the basis of the vehicle speed sensed, and means for presenting the information data selected to the driver in a predetermined form.

Apparatus and method for providing information to a driver of a vehicle, and apparatus and method for presenting information to the driver

Systems and methods for discriminating a vehicle surrounding circumstance for monitoring the vehicle surrounding and for warning an obstacle present around the vehicle surrounding are disclosed wherein each system has a vehicle speed detecting unit ( ) detecting a vehicle speed, an action detecting unit ( ) detecting a driver's action, and a vehicle surrounding circumstance discriminating unit ( ) discriminating a good or bad visibility around the vehicle surrounding on the basis of the vehicle speed and the driver's action, thereby enabling a discrimination for the good or bad visibility in the vehicle surrounding at an intersecting point or at a pedestrian crossing on the basis of the vehicle speed and the driver's action.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tatsumi Yanai