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Title:
DISPLAY CONTROLLER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008011187
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a display controller which can make a display device indicate an image in which a distance between an obstacle and a vehicle is easy to recognize without operation burden to a user.

The display controller with an image conversion means carries out image conversion of an imaging video image photographed by a camera 2 which photographs external of a vehicle to an looking-down video image which looks an photographing range of the camera 2 from a virtual eye point 36 and by a virtual eye line 38. The image conversion means decides a point of the virtual eye point 36 in a position in which the eye point of the imaging device is moved in a height direction 37 of the vehicle, so that a length of a perpendicular line 35 drawn from the virtual eye point 36 to an intersection line 34 of a second plane 32, which is in parallel with a first plane 30 contacting with an end face in which the camera 2 of the vehicle is prepared and contacting with a vehicle side of an obstacle 31, and a horizontal virtual road face 33 for the vehicle becomes a constant value. It decides a depression angle 39 of the virtual eye line 38 so that the virtual eye line 38 agrees to the perpendicular line 35.


Inventors:
NOJIRI ATSUSHI
YOSHIOKA KENJI
OGAWA SHINYA
NAGAREGO TATSUTO
Application Number:
JP2006179673A
Publication Date:
January 17, 2008
Filing Date:
June 29, 2006
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
International Classes:
H04N7/18; B60R1/00; B60R11/02; B60R21/00; G06T1/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Gunichiro Ariga