Vehicular visual assistance system

Abstract

In a vehicular visual assistance system, an image picked up by an image pickup device capable of picking up an image of a fore-and-aft region sideward of a vehicle is processed by an image processing device, and displayed on a display monitor. The image pickup device (14L) is mounted on a lower part of a door mirror housing, and is capable of picking up an image of a region that is continuous in the fore-and-aft direction while simultaneously including part of a front region directly viewed by a vehicle driver on a driver's seat and part of a rear region indirectly viewed by the vehicle driver via a door mirror. The image processing device displays, on the display monitor, a region for which at least front and rear boundaries thereof overlap the rear edge of the directly viewed region and the front edge of the indirectly viewed region, respectively. Thus, it is possible to avoid a blind spot from occurring between the direct and indirect views and the image based on the picked up image.

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[0001] This application is a divisional application of the Chinese invention patent application with the filing date of December 7, 2005, the title of the invention is "Vehicle Vision Assist Device", and the application number is 200510127478.1. technical field [0002] The invention relates to a vehicle field of vision assisting device, which comprises: an imaging device installed in a door rearview mirror housing capable of imaging the side of the vehicle front and rear; and a monitor installed in the vehicle for visual confirmation by the driver of the vehicle. and an image processing device for processing the imaging signal obtained by the imaging device and displaying the obtained image on the monitor. Background technique [0003] For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-67794, such an imaging device disposed at the bottom of the door mirror housing is disclosed, which simultaneously captures images in both the front and rear directions of the side...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] The side view of the vehicle driver on the driver's seat is a combination of the direct view on the front side viewed through the windshield, the indirect view on the rear side obtained through the door rearview mirror, and the image obtained by the camera device field of view, but for the above-mentioned existing solutions, there may be a dead angle between the direct field of view and the indirect field of view and the image obtained by the camera device, and it is difficult to confirm the safety of the blind angle

And because the direct field of view and the indirect field of view and the sense of continuity between the images cannot be obtained, the visual recognition effect of the vehicle driver is relatively poor

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