Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshiya Mori

Ken'ichi Kasazumi

Masanaga Tsuji

Akira Tanaka

Junichi Hirai

Naoya Takao

Takashi Kakiuchi

Masahito Ogata

Hiroaki Okayama

Nobuyuki Nakano

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Kosuke Kubota

Tadashi Shibata

Masayuki Kozuka

Kazuo Okamura

Masahiro Oashi

Akihiro Tanaka

Yoshihiro Mimura

Tatsuya Shimoji

Yuki Kusumi

Ikuo Minakata

Satoshi Kuzuhara

Fumihito Inukai

Yoshiteru Mino

Shohei Hayashi

Shinji Inoue

Koichi Emura

Koichiro Yamaguchi

Hideki Kagemoto

Kenichi Kasazumi

Wataru Nakai

Hiroyuki Furuya

Akira Kurozuka

Ken′ichi Kasazumi

Kiyokazu Yamanaka

Shigeaki Watanabe

Tetsuji Maeda

Kazutoshi Sumiya

Hiroshi Gotou

Akira Ishikawa

Hideto Motomura

Kazuhiro Minami

Masaki Tada

Kakuya Yamamoto

Shinsuke Nakazono

Masafumi Sueyoshi

Yoshihide Sawada

Yosuke Asai

Yoshihisa Terada

Kazuya Watanabe

Hideki Takahashi

Yukihiro Chokyu

Hidekazu Shimizu

Hisayuki Kino

Seigo Nakamura

Mohamed Sahim Kourkouss

Keiji Sugiyama

Daisuke Tokunaga

An image generation apparatus (vehicle information acquirer/controller) is utilized in a display system that projects an image onto a display medium of a vehicle to enable a user to visually recognize a virtual image, and includes a vehicle information acquirer that acquires vehicle position information indicating the current location of a vehicle and path information indicating a path along which the vehicle is guided to a destination; a map image generator that generates a map image of the vicinity of the current location in accordance with the vehicle position information; a guide image generator that generates a guide image indicating a path relative to the current location in accordance with the vehicle position information and the path information; and a composite image generator that generates a composite image for projecting the guide image and the map image, in a mode in which these images are associated with each other.

Image generation apparatus, display system, image generation method, and recording medium

A display system includes: a road surface undulation estimator that estimates undulation of a road surface; a superimposing position determiner that determines, based on the estimated undulation, a superimposing position at which content is to be displayed by being superimposed on a foreground; and a display that displays the content with the content superimposed on the foreground at the determined superimposing position. The road surface undulation estimator includes: a road surface undulation information obtainer that obtains road surface undulation information items indicating the undulation at points and being calculated based on images generated when an imager provided to a mobile body performs image capturing a plurality of times; a determiner that determines whether or not the obtained road surface undulation information items each satisfy a predetermined condition; and an estimator that estimates the undulation based on road surface undulation information items which have been determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.

Display system, road surface undulation estimation device, and display method

A display device includes a processing circuit and a display. The processing circuit obtains an ambient temperature of a gyro sensor, obtains a sensitivity associated with a temperature range including the ambient temperature, corrects an angular velocity of the gyro sensor in accordance with the sensitivity, estimates a first estimated vehicle orientation based on the angular velocity corrected, estimates a second estimated vehicle orientation based on the angular velocity detected by the gyro sensor, derives a third estimated vehicle orientation by correcting the first estimated vehicle orientation using a position and a speed of vehicle, and updates the sensitivity of the temperature range using a calculated sensitivity that is based on the second estimated vehicle orientation and the third estimated vehicle orientation. The display displays an image that is in accordance with the third estimated vehicle orientation.

Display device and display method

A display device includes a controller that determines the mode of inclination of a display object that is an image shaped to point to one direction, and a drawing unit that projects light representing the display object in the mode of inclination determined by the controller onto a windshield to cause the light to be reflected off the windshield toward a user in the vehicle to enable the user to visually recognize the display object in the mode of inclination as a virtual image through the windshield. The controller determines the mode of inclination of the display object that points to the one direction as a navigation direction, by controlling yaw and roll angles of the display object depending on the attribute of a path point that is set on the path to navigate the vehicle to a destination.

Display device for enabling a user to visually recognize an image as a virtual image

Imaging and display system includes: a display; an optical system including a first mirror and a second mirror; a housing; a light-transmissive cover transparent to light and disposed to cover at least part of an opening of the housing; and a driver monitoring camera supported by a supporting body connected outside of the housing. First light emitted from the display passes through the light-transmissive cover via the optical system, and is reflected by a windshield toward a direction of the user. The driver monitoring camera captures an image of a driver shown on the light-transmissive cover by second light from a direction of the driver reflected by the windshield toward a direction of the light-transmissive cover.

Imaging and display system

A light guide body in a display device includes a first incident surface on which an image light is incident, and a second emission surface from which the image light is emitted. The light guide body includes a second emission optical element that diffracts the image light to emit a portion of the image light at a predetermined emission angle every time the image light enters the second emission optical element from a predetermined direction. The image light is diverged by being emitted from the second emission optical element such that the predetermined emission angle varies in accordance with a location in one predetermined region included in a plurality of predetermined regions of the optical element. The degree of divergence varies between the one predetermined region and other predetermined region included in the plurality of predetermined regions in accordance with the location of the virtual image.

Display device

A video control device includes a processor and a memory including a program that, when executed, causes the processor to perform operations including: obtaining a position of a vehicle determined by a satellite positioning system; obtaining an estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on dead reckoning; estimating a deviation in an orientation of the vehicle, based on the position of the vehicle determined by the satellite positioning system and the estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on the dead reckoning; calculating an estimated orientation of the vehicle, based on the deviation in the orientation of the vehicle estimated; and outputting the estimated orientation of the vehicle to a video display device that displays information which is based on the orientation of the vehicle.

Video control device, video control method, and recording medium

An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.

Image display system, image display method, storage medium, and moving vehicle including the image display system

A rendering system includes a first obtainer, a second obtainer, a renderer, an estimator, and a corrector. The first obtainer obtains position information indicating a position of an object from a detector. The second obtainer obtains movement information indicating a movement state of the moving body. The renderer renders a display image including a content related to the object. The estimator estimates a delay period by comparing the position information to estimated-position information indicating an estimated position of the object estimated based on the movement information of the object. The corrector corrects displacement of a display position of the content on the display image which is caused by movement of the moving body over the delay period.

Rendering system, display system, display control system, and rendering method

A video display system includes: a screen on which an mage for displaying a virtual image is projected; a light source that emits laser light; a scanner that projects the image onto the screen by biaxially scanning the laser light onto the screen; and a controller that generates the image and controls the light source using an image signal for causing the generated image to be projected onto the screen by the laser light, and receives an input of sensing information measured using a temperature sensor and controls the scanner in accordance with the input sensing information. When the sensing information indicates a temperature outside a given temperature range, the controller causes the scanner to reduce an amplitude of the biaxial scanning in at least one axial direction to a smaller value than when the sensing information indicates a second brightness or a temperature within the given temperature range.

Video display system, video display method, and moving body

A display control device is configured to control a display position of an image in an image projector configured to project the image onto a display object of a mobile body. The display control device includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the display control device to perform operations including: acquiring a detection value of an acceleration acting on the mobile body; calculating an attitude angle of the mobile body based on the detection value of the acceleration; and setting a correction amount of the display position for controlling the display position of the image to be projected onto the display object by adjusting a correction amount per predetermined unit time in accordance with a change amount of the attitude angle in a predetermined period.

Display control device, image display system, mobile body, display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A display correction system includes a first obtainer, a second obtainer, a third obtainer, a predictor, and a corrector. The first obtainer obtains travel route information on a travel route ahead of a moving body. The second obtainer obtains speed information on a speed of the moving body. The third obtainer obtains orientation information on an orientation of the moving body. The predictor predicts, based on the travel route information and the speed information, a time period during which the moving body travels through a specific section in the travel route. The corrector performs correction of a displacement of a display position of a content on a display image based on the orientation information. Based on prediction result of the predictor, the corrector executes first control when the moving body is traveling in a normal section, and executes second control when the moving body is traveling in the specific section.

Display correction system, display system, and display correction method

An electronic mirror system presents circumstances surrounding a moving vehicle by displaying an image presenting the circumstances surrounding the moving vehicle. The electronic mirror system includes an image display and an optical system. The image display displays, every time image data is acquired from an image capturing unit, the image, based on the image data acquired from the image capturing unit, on a display screen. The image capturing unit continuously shoots video presenting the circumstances surrounding the moving vehicle. The optical system condenses, into an eye box, a light beam representing the image displayed on the display screen to make a user, who has a viewpoint inside the eye box, view a virtual image based on the image displayed on the display screen. The display screen is arranged to be tilted with respect to an optical path that leads from the display screen to the optical system (30).

Electronic mirror system, image display method, and moving vehicle

An image display system includes a display unit displaying an image, a projection unit projecting in a target space a virtual image corresponding to the image with an output light of the display unit, a body unit provided thereto the display unit and the projection unit, and an image producing unit including a first correction unit and a second correction unit. The first correction unit performs a first correction processing of correcting, based on a first orientation signal indicative of a first orientation change of the body unit, a display position of the virtual image in the target space. The second correction unit performs a second correction processing of correcting, based on a second orientation signal indicative of a second orientation change of the body unit which is faster than the first orientation change, the display position of the virtual image in the target space.

Image display system, image display method, movable object including the image display system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

An image display system includes: an image projection unit that projects and displays an image on a display target for a moving body; a posture angle calculation unit that calculates a posture angle for the moving body on the basis of chronological data for acceleration detection values for the acceleration of the moving body in a prescribed time period; and a display control unit that controls the display position at which the image is projected and displayed on the display target, in accordance with the posture angle calculated by the posture angle calculation unit. The acceleration detection values include bi-directional components. The posture angle calculation unit excludes acceleration detection values from the chronological data used when calculating the posture angle, said acceleration detection values being included in an exclusion time period which has a ratio for the bidirectional components, in the prescribed time period, that is outside a prescribed range.

Image display system, moving body, image display method, and program

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