Vehicle Driving Assistance Display for Overlapping Image Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle driving assistance systems face difficulties in ensuring that drivers can easily recognize driving assistance images and information providing images, as they often overlap and obscure each other, making it hard for operators to distinguish between them.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle driving assistance apparatus comprising an image acquisition device, an image projection device, and a displaying device, controlled by an electronic control unit, which adjusts the visibility of driving assistance and information providing images to prevent overlap, using conditions such as lighting intensity and image processing to ensure clear recognition of driving assistance images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If both driving assistance image and information providing image are displayed simultaneously, then comprehensive information is provided to the driver, but the images overlap and make it difficult for the driver to recognize them
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the information providing image from the camera image by performing image processing to remove or reduce the visibility of the projected information providing image in the captured camera image, preventing overlap with the driving assistance image and ensuring clear recognizability of both images when displayed together
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the visibility parameter of the information providing image by adjusting its transparency or intensity through image processing, allowing the system to control how the information providing image appears in the composite display to avoid obscuring the driving assistance image
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AI summary
A vehicle driving assistance apparatus comprises an image acquisition device which takes and acquires an image of a predetermined range including a predetermined area around an own vehicle as a predetermined range image, an image projection device which projects an information providing image onto the predetermined area, and a displaying device which displays the predetermined range image and a driving assistance image, overlapping the predetermined range image. The apparatus displays the predetermined range image while decreasing a visibility of one of the driving assistance image and the information providing image in the predetermined range image when both of a displaying condition and a projecting condition become satisfied. The information providing image indicates information on the own vehicle. The driving assistance image assists a driving operation to the own vehicle by the operator.