IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

• Main Authors: KIYO, Kouei, MAEJIMA, Kohei
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 21.12.2016
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING ORSUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES INGENERAL; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

An image processing device (10) according to an aspect of the embodiment includes a display controller (11) and a determining unit (12). The display controller (11) generates a synthesized image when viewing a perimeter of a vehicle from a virtual viewpoint based on an image from an image capturing device (20) and causes a display unit (31) to display the synthesized image. The determining unit (12) determines, in a case where a screen other than a virtual viewpoint screen including the synthesized image is displayed on the display unit (31), whether a switching condition to a notification screen for notifying an occupant of presence of an obstacle is satisfied when the obstacle is detected by a detector (40) that detects the obstacle around the vehicle. The display controller (11) causes the display unit (31) to display the notification screen obtained by superimposing a predetermined notification image on the virtual viewpoint screen, when the determining unit (12) determines that the switching condition is satisfied.