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Driving aiding system
Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 2002-04-04
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Granted: 2006-02-28
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Expires: 2022-04-04
Abstract
Abstract A driving aiding system includes a displaying section arranged at a position that can be looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle, an image picking-up section for picking up an image of a rear portion of the vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch that is provided to the rear portion of the vehicle, and an image processing section for causing the displaying section to display a synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing an image picked up by the image picking-up section. A hitch image of own vehicle in addition to an image of a trailed vehicle and an image of a destination coupler are displayed on a screen of the displaying section. As a result, the relative positional relationship between the hitch and the destination coupler can be checked on the screen and thus the hitch coupling operation can be facilitated.
Inventors
- 👤 Kazufumi Mizusawa
- 👤 Shusaku Okamoto
- 👤 Takashi Yoshida
- 👤 Ryosuke Iida
- 👤 Yuichi Hirama
- 👤 Michio Miwa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 23:02
CPC Classifications
B; B62; B62D; B62D15/00; B62D15/02; B62D15/029; B60; B60D; B60D1/00; B60D1/24; B60D1/36; B60K; B60K35/00; B60K35/20; B60K35/21; B60K35/22; B60K35/28; B60K35/65; B60K35/654; G; G08; G08G; G08G1/00; G08G1/16; G08G1/165; B60K2360/00; B60K2360/16; B60K2360/173; B60K2360/179; B60K2360/20; B60K2360/21
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
119 words
A driving aiding system comprising: a displaying means arranged at a position that is looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle; an image picking-up means for picking up an image of a rearward direction of the vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch that is provided to a rear position of the vehicle; and an image processing means for causing the displaying means to display a synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing the image picked up by the image picking-up means, wherein the image picked up by the image picking-up means is image-processed so as to convert position coordinates of pixels of the picked-up image into position coordinates of pixels of the synthesized image.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
119 words
A driving aiding system comprising: a displaying means arranged at a position that is looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle; an image picking-up means for picking up an image of a rearward direction of the vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch that is provided to a rear position of the vehicle; and an image processing means for causing the displaying means to display a synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing the image picked up by the image picking-up means, wherein the image picked up by the image picking-up means is image-processed so as to convert position coordinates of pixels of the picked-up image into position coordinates of pixels of the synthesized image.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
115 words
A driving aiding system comprising: a displaying means arranged at a position that is looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle; an image picking-up means for picking up an image of a rearward direction of the vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch that is provided to a rear position of the vehicle; and an image processing means for causing the displaying means to display a synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing the image picked up by the image picking-up means, wherein the image processing means comprises means for cutting out and deforming the synthesized image which at least cuts out and deforms a predetermined area of the synthesized image.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
115 words
A driving aiding system comprising: a displaying means arranged at a position that is looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle; an image picking-up means for picking up an image of a rearward direction of the vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch that is provided to a rear position of the vehicle; and an image processing means for causing the displaying means to display a synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing the image picked up by the image picking-up means, wherein the image processing means comprises means for cutting out and deforming the synthesized image which at least cuts out and deforms a predetermined area of the synthesized image.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 2 , wherein means for cutting out and deforming the synthesized image comprises an image enlarging means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
33 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 2 , wherein means for cutting out and deforming the synthesized image comprises an image transforming means which transforms the synthesized image by changing a viewpoint.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
46 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 2 , wherein the image processing means has means for switching an image to be displayed at the image displaying means between the synthesized image and an extracted image that is obtained by said cutting out and deforming means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
49 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 2 , wherein the image processing means has means for displaying the synthesized image and an extracted image that is obtained by cutting out and deforming a predetermined area of the synthesized image in parallel on one screen of the displaying means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
33 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 5 , wherein the image processing means has means for displaying a guide line indicating a display area of the extracted image in the synthesized image.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 6 , wherein the image processing means has means for displaying a guide line indicating a display area of the extracted image in the synthesized image.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
108 words
A driving aiding system comprising: a displaying means arranged at a position that can be looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle; an image picking-up means for picking up an image of a rearward direction of the vehicle; said vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch; and an image processing means for superposing an illustrated image of the hitch indicating a presence position of the hitch equipped to a rear portion of the vehicle onto a synthesized image to display when the synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing the image picked up by the image picking-up means is displayed on the displaying means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
108 words
A driving aiding system comprising: a displaying means arranged at a position that can be looked at from a driver's seat of a vehicle; an image picking-up means for picking up an image of a rearward direction of the vehicle; said vehicle containing at least a part of a hitch; and an image processing means for superposing an illustrated image of the hitch indicating a presence position of the hitch equipped to a rear portion of the vehicle onto a synthesized image to display when the synthesized image that is obtained by image-processing the image picked up by the image picking-up means is displayed on the displaying means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
44 words
A driving aiding system according to claim 5 , wherein the image processing means has means for displaying a guide line for guiding a position of a trailed vehicle side coupler to be coupled to the hitch on a screen of the displaying means.
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