VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS MONITORING DEVICE AND VEHICLE SURROUNDING MONITORING METHOD

• Main Authors: KOKIDO TOMOYOSHI, MORI KOHEI, TAKEHARA NARIAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 30.04.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

To suppress large-sizing of a vehicle surroundings monitoring device by allowing commonality of the parts which can be shared between a surrounding monitoring camera device and a rear view monitoring camera device and integrating into one device.SOLUTION: A vehicle surroundings monitoring device includes a surroundings monitoring camera 2 that captures a surroundings-monitoring video; a rear-view monitoring camera 3 that captures a rear-view monitoring video; a monitoring function selecting part 5 that selects one or more of a plurality of surroundings monitoring functions and one or more of rear-view monitoring functions as selected monitoring functions in accordance with a state of the vehicle, determines either of the surroundings monitoring video and the rear-view monitoring video as an input video in accordance with the selected monitoring functions, and determines a video processing method corresponding to the selected monitoring functions; an input video acquiring part 6 that acquires the input video determined by the monitoring function selecting part from either the surroundings monitoring camera or the rear-view monitoring camera; and an input video processing part 7 that performs image processing on the input video using the video processing method determined by the monitoring function selecting part.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】周辺監視カメラ装置と後側方監視カメラ装置との共用できる部分を共通化して１つの装置に統合することで、車両用周囲監視装置の大型化を抑制する。【解決手段】周辺監視映像を撮像する周辺監視カメラ２と、後側方監視映像を撮像する後側方監視カメラ３と、自車の車両状況に基づいて１つまたは複数の周辺監視機能および１つまたは複数の後側方監視機能の中の１つまたは複数を選択監視機能として選択し、選択監視機能に基づいて周辺監視映像および後側方監視映像のいずれか一方を入力映像として決定すると共に、選択監視機能に対応する映像処理方法を決定する監視機能選択部５と、監視機能選択部で決定された入力映像を周辺監視カメラおよび後側方監視カメラのいずれか一方から取得する入力映像取得部６と、入力映像に対して監視機能選択部で決定された映像処理方法で映像処理を行う入力映像処理部７とを備えている。【選択図】図１