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Surround surveillance system for mobile body, and mobile body, car, and train using the same
| Details |
Inventors: Kumata, Kiyoshi; Shigeta, Toru;
Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP)
Primary Examiner: Pope; Daryl
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
A surround surveillance system mounted on a mobile body for surveying surroundings around the mobile body includes an omniazimuth visual system, the omniazimuth visual system including: at least one omniazimuth visual sensor including an optical system capable of obtaining an image of 360.degree. view field area therearound and capable of central projection transformation for the image, and an imaging section for converting the image obtained by the optical system into first image data; an image processor for transforming the first image data into second image data for a panoramic image and/or for a perspective image; a display section for displaying the panoramic image and/or the perspective image based on the second image data; and a display control section for selecting and controlling the panoramic image and/or the perspective image. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to one aspect of the present invention, a surround surveillance system mounted on a mobile body for surveying surroundings around the mobile body includes an omniazimuth visual system, the omniazimuth visual system including: at least one omniazimuth visual sensor including an optical system capable of obtaining an image of 360.
degree.
view field area therearound and capable of central projection transformation for the image, and an imaging section for converting the image obtained by the optical system into first image data; an image processor for transforming the first image data into second image data for a panoramic image and/or for a perspective image; a display section for displaying the panoramic image and/or the perspective image based on the second image data; and a display control section for selecting and controlling the panoramic image and/or the perspective image.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the display section displays the panoramic image and the perspective image at one time, or the display section selectively displays one of the panoramic image and the perspective image.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the display section simultaneously displays at least frontal, left, and right view field perspective images within the 360.
degree.
view field area based on the second image data.
In still another embodiment of the present invention, the display control section selects one of the frontal, left, and right view field perspective images displayed by the display section; the image processor vertically/horizontally moves or scales-up/scales-down the view field perspective image selected by the display control section according to an external operation; and the display section displays the moved or scaled-up/scaled-down image.
In still another embodiment of the present invention, the display section includes a location display section for displaying a mobile body location image; and the display control section switches the display section between an image showing surroundings of the mobile body and the mobile body location image
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