US 12,340,463 B2
Vehicle display control device for object detection for traveling direction side
Shinya Kodama, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jul. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/217,839.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-149615 (JP), filed on Sep. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0096008 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 15/20 (2011.01); B60R 1/23 (2022.01); G06T 15/40 (2011.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); H04N 5/268 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 15/205 (2013.01) [B60R 1/23 (2022.01); G06T 15/40 (2013.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); H04N 5/268 (2013.01); B60R 2300/30 (2013.01); B60R 2300/607 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8093 (2013.01); G06T 2210/62 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle display control device comprising a processor that:
generates an image that looks down at a vehicle and its surroundings from a set viewpoint from a captured image acquired from one or more cameras that captures an image of the surroundings of the vehicle and a polygon model that shows the vehicle;
causes a display to display the generated image; and
switches a viewpoint of the image to be displayed on the display to a viewpoint where a traveling direction of the vehicle can be visually recognized and an obstacle is displayed on the display, when the obstacle is detected by one or more sensors that detects an obstacle present on the traveling direction side of the vehicle,
wherein in a case where a plurality of obstacles is detected by the one or more sensors, the obstacles are grouped by directions in which the obstacles exist, and a plurality of groups of the obstacles is obtained, when a group of first obstacles having a smallest distance from the vehicle is present among the groups of the obstacles, and a group of second obstacles having a difference less than a predetermined value is not present, the difference being a difference from the group of the first obstacles with respect to a distance from the vehicle, the processor
switches the viewpoint of the image to be displayed on the display to a viewpoint where the traveling direction of the vehicle can be visually recognized and an obstacle belonging to the group of the first obstacles is displayed on the display, and
makes a display of the vehicle in the image transparent.