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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
May. 18, 2012
Keigo Ikeda, Anjo, JP;
Hiroyuki Watanabe, Chiryu, JP;
Takashi Kato, Anjo, JP;
Masaki Katagiri, Gifu, JP;
Keigo Ikeda, Anjo, JP;
Hiroyuki Watanabe, Chiryu, JP;
Takashi Kato, Anjo, JP;
Masaki Katagiri, Gifu, JP;
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle surrounding-area monitoring apparatus that, when recognizing an obstacle, allows for easy determination of the positional relationship between the obstacle and scenery included in a video image of the area surrounding the vehicle, generates a narrow view-field region that is a part of the video image as a notable video image, and if an obstacle region that is a region of the recognized obstacle in the video image is located outside of the narrow view-field region and if the obstacle region is contained in an image region that is partially overlapping with the narrow view-field region and is a part of the video image, generates the image region as a notable obstacle image so as to generate a surrounding-area monitoring display image comprised of the notable video image and the notable obstacle image.