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Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Denso Ten Limited, Kobe, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiro Iino, Kobe, JP;

Michihiro Takada, Kobe, JP;

Mayuko Maeda, Kobe, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO TEN Limited, Kobe, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01); B60R 2300/105 (2013.01); B60R 2300/303 (2013.01); B60R 2300/607 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01); G06T 2200/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image generation device includes: an image acquisition unit which acquires images taken by cameras installed in a vehicle; a storage unit which stores self vehicle data indicating the vehicle having such gloss that a certain region is higher in brightness than the other region; a bird's eye image generation unit which generates a neighborhood image that is an image of the vehicle and a neighborhood of the vehicle as viewed from a virtual point of view based on the acquired images; a 3D image generation unit which generates a three-dimensional self-vehicle image being a three-dimensional image of the vehicle; and an image synthesis unit which generates a synthesized image in which the self-vehicle image is superimposed on the neighborhood image, and the 3D image generation unit generates the three-dimensional self-vehicle image based on the self vehicle data that is read out from the storage unit.


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