US 12,187,194 B2
Periphery-image display device and display control method
Shogo Kida, Kariya (JP); Shinichi Moriyama, Kariya (JP); Tomoki Miyata, Toyota (JP); Jun Kamishima, Toyota (JP); Yamato Yorifuji, Aichi-ken (JP); and Kohei Maejima, Nagakute (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,289.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-208545 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0185183 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 1/00 (2022.01)
CPC B60R 1/002 (2013.01) [B60R 2300/105 (2013.01); B60R 2300/303 (2013.01); B60R 2300/305 (2013.01); B60R 2300/607 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
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1. A periphery-image display device for a vehicle, comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
form a periphery image, which is a synthetic image showing a region of a periphery of the vehicle viewed from an arbitrary virtual view point, by using a plurality of camera images captured by a plurality of cameras configured to photograph the periphery of the vehicle;
execute processing to display, on a display, the periphery image;
form a vehicle-inside view point image, which is the periphery image showing a periphery of the vehicle viewed from a vehicle-inside view point positioned inside a vehicle room in such a way as to transparently pass through a portion or an entirety of the vehicle;
form an interior-added image, which is a synthetic image including an image of an interior member viewed from the vehicle-inside view point, by using data, which is for drawing an image of the interior member and stored in a predetermined storage medium;
when changing over a display screen to the vehicle-inside view point image in response to a user's manipulation on the vehicle, before displaying the vehicle-inside view point image, display an animation that stepwisely moves a position of the virtual view point from a start view point, which is set at a predetermined position outside the vehicle room, to the vehicle-inside view point as a target view point and thereafter to gradually raise the transparency of the image of the interior member; and
start processing to gradually raise the transparency of the image of the interior member and to perform an animation expression to display an image of a tire as non-transparent, which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, after elapse of a predetermined time period since start of rendering the interior member transparent, after the virtual view point has reached the vehicle-inside view point as the target view point.