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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2002
Shusaku Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Masamichi Nakagawa, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Morimura, Nara, JP;
Kazufumi Mizusawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Iisaka, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Yoshida, Osaka, JP;
Shusaku Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Masamichi Nakagawa, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Morimura, Nara, JP;
Kazufumi Mizusawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Iisaka, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Yoshida, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a vehicle surroundings monitoring system for synthesizing and displaying images captured by a plurality of cameras to provide images that, near the border between partial images, are more accurate and more readily understood by the user than has been the case conventionally. In the synthesized image, a partial image captured by a first camera and a partial image captured by a second camera are adjacent to one another at their border. Near this border, the capturing directions of the first and the second cameras both substantially match the direction of the border. Consequently, images of objects near the border extend along the border, and thus do not disappear on the synthesized image.