US 11,997,418 B2
Indirect viewing system and method for adjusting a frame rate
Werner Lang, Ergersheim (DE); Peter Geißendörfer, Arberg (DE); and Andreas Redlingshöfer, Trautskirchen (DE)
Assigned to MEKRA LANG GMBH & CO. KG, Ergersheim (DE)
Filed by MEKRA Lang GmbH & Co. KG, Ergersheim (DE)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/522,231.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 129 908.7 (DE), filed on Nov. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0150443 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 7/01 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2022.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 23/76 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 7/0127 (2013.01) [B60R 1/00 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01); H04N 23/76 (2023.01); B60R 2300/303 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An indirect viewing system for a vehicle, comprising:
at least one image capture device having an image sensor for continuously capturing images at a first frame rate;
an image memory which temporarily stores images for processing which is temporally subsequent to the capturing of the images;
an image processing device that continuously calculates at least one new image from at least two successively captured images, the calculated new images having a second frame rate different from the first frame rate; and
an image output device for outputting the continuously calculated new images at the second frame rate, wherein each of the continuously calculated new images is formed by summing at least two successive images each multiplied by a percentage factor, wherein the percentage factor changes continuously for the continuously calculated new images according to a temporal position of the calculated new image with respect to temporal positions of the at least two successively captured images.