IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE AND IMAGE GENERATING METHOD

• Main Authors: SATO TOMOYUKI, SAKAGUCHI ATSUTOSHI, HABUTA RIE, TAKAHASHI MASAHIRO, TAKEUCHI TAMAKI, HATAKEYAMA YUKIKO, SEI YUKIE, MAEJIMA KOHEI, MOTOHIRO AKINARI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 05.07.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image generating device and an image generating method capable of accurately grasping a vehicle width.SOLUTION: The image generating device includes: a synthesizing unit; and a superimposing unit. On the basis of the captured image captured by an image capturing unit provided in a vehicle, an overhead view image of a virtual viewpoint for viewing a traveling direction of the vehicle so as to include at least a part of the side of the vehicle is synthesized by the synthesizing unit. The superimposing unit superimposes a planar image obtained by flattening the vehicle on a road surface position of the vehicle in the overhead view image synthesized by the synthesizing unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】車幅を正確に把握させることができる画像生成装置および画像生成方法を提供すること。【解決手段】実施形態に係る画像生成装置は、合成部と、重畳部とを備える。合成部は、車両に設けられた撮像部によって撮像された撮像画像に基づき、車両の側方の少なくとも一部を含むように車両の進行方向を見る仮想視点の俯瞰画像を合成する。重畳部は、合成部によって合成された俯瞰画像における車両の路面位置に車両を平面化した平面画像を重畳する。【選択図】図２