Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujitsu Ten Limited

Yohei Satomi

Tomohito Higuma

Tomoaki Iida

Yuki Takahashi

Goro Asai

Yuka Shidochi

Jumpei Inagaki

Kouei Kiyo

Masaaki Amano

Masato Okuda

Atsutoshi Sakaguchi

Makoto Nishida

Shinichi Moriyama

Satoru Matsuyama

Hiroaki Yamashita

A dashboard camera device including: an imaging section configured to image rearward from a self-vehicle; a recording section configured to record a video image captured by the imaging section; a headlight-flashing detection section configured to detect illumination and blinking of a headlight of a following vehicle traveling behind the self-vehicle; and a control section configured to determine a headlight-flashing threshold value based on a travel environment of the self-vehicle, the headlight-flashing threshold value being a threshold value for a change in light intensity caused by blinking of the headlight of the following vehicle as detected by the headlight-flashing detection section, and, in a case in which a change in light intensity, due to blinking of the headlight of the following vehicle, has exceeded the headlight-flashing threshold value, the control section causes the recording section to record the video image captured by the imaging section.

Dashboard camera device

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

A display device for a vehicle, including: a rear imaging section that captures a rear image; a rear lateral imaging section that captures rear lateral images; and a control section that generates a combined image in which a rear processed image obtained by processing the rear image with a first parameter, and rear lateral processed images obtained by processing rear lateral images with a second parameter, are combined, wherein the control section further identifies an object existing in the rear image or the rear lateral images; acquires relative information including relative position and relative speed of the object with respect to the vehicle, and blind spot regions of the combined image; and, based thereon, if the object will disappear from the combined image due to entering into the blind spot regions, changes the blind spot regions by adjusting the first and second parameters.

Display device for vehicle, display method for vehicle, and storage medium

An image processing device according to an embodiment includes a display control unit, a pattern specification unit, and a pattern collating unit. The display control unit generates a composite image that is a surrounding image of a vehicle viewed from a virtual viewpoint, based on images input from in-vehicle cameras, and displays thereof on a display unit. The pattern specification unit specifies an image pattern to be output as the input image among image patterns, for each in-vehicle camera. The pattern collating unit determines whether all image pattern responses from the in-vehicle cameras match with the image pattern. The display control unit displays a certain preparation image on the display unit when the display switching condition to the composite image is satisfied, and displays the composite image thereon instead of the preparation image, when the pattern collating unit determines that all the image pattern responses match with the image pattern.

Image processing device and image processing method

A video display apparatus includes video output units to output signals representing first videos captured or received, respectively, and when a predetermined signal is input from an outside, only for a predetermined period, to output signals representing second videos having fixed images, instead of the signals representing the first videos, respectively; a display to display a video based on the signal output by one of the video output units; and a control apparatus to output the predetermined signal to the video output units, and after having output the predetermined signal, to execute switching a signal representing a video output to the display among the signals representing the videos output by the video output units, while the video output units having the signals representing the videos output to the display before and after the switching, respectively, output the signals representing the second videos, respectively.

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Okazaki, Japan

Yohei Satomi