A video display system performs a video conversion process on a video of a camera mounted on a vehicle and displays a resulting video, and includes a plurality of cameras, a detecting unit that detects an object of interest around the vehicle based on information or the like acquired through the plurality of cameras, other sensors, or a network, a transforming/synthesizing unit that transforms and synthesizes the videos photographed by the plurality of cameras using a shape of a virtual projection plane, a virtual viewpoint, and a synthesis method which are decided according to position information of the object of interest detected by the detecting unit, and a display unit that displays the video that is transformed and synthesized by the transforming/synthesizing unit.

Video synthesis system, video synthesis device, and video synthesis method

Implementations generally relate to image overlay compositing In some implementations, a method includes receiving a first image and a second image The method further includes determining one or more attributes of each of the first image and the second image, where the one or more attributes includes one or more image types The method further includes determining one or more compositing techniques combine the first image and the second image based on one or more of the attributes

Image overlay compositing

There is provided an image capturing apparatus that captures a plurality of images, calculates a three-dimensional position from the plurality of images, and outputs the plurality of images and information about the three-dimensional position. The image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a camera parameter storage unit, a position calculation unit, a position selection unit, and an image complementing unit. The image capturing unit outputs the plurality of images using at least three cameras. The camera parameter storage unit stores in advance camera parameters including occlusion information. The position calculation unit calculates three dimensional positions of a plurality of points. The position selection unit selects a piece of position information relating to a subject area that does not have an occlusion, and outputs selected position information. The image complementing unit generates a complementary image, and outputs the complementary image and the selected position information.

Image capturing apparatus, monitoring system, image processing apparatus, image capturing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

The present invention makes it possible to easily and accurately detect the presence of a three-dimensional object and show the same in an overhead view image The present invention is characterized by being provided with a feature-quantity-detection-condition specification unit for specifying conditions for detecting prescribed feature quantities for overhead view images of images of a common region imaged from at least two different points of view, a feature-quantity detection unit for using the specified feature quantity detection conditions to detect a feature quantity for each overhead view image of the imaged images of the common region, a blend-ratio specification unit for specifying the blend ratio for blending the pixels of the overhead images of the images of the common region imaged from different points of view according to the feature quantities detected by the feature-quantity detection unit, and an overhead-view-image synthesis unit for producing synthesized output by blending the pixels of the overhead images of the imaged images of the common region according to the blend ratio specified by the blend-ratio specification unit

Image display device and image display system

An image recognition unit recognizes an object in each image captured by a plurality of imaging devices each imaging a partial overlapped imaging region surrounding a vehicle. An image synthesis unit generates a synthesized image by partially overlapping and joining converted images viewed from preset virtual viewpoints, when an imaging region including the recognized object is an overlapping region of which any one of two imaging devices performs imaging. The image synthesis unit synthesizes each converted image area in the overlapping image regions, using a preset blend ratio when an image of the converted images which are joined to partially overlap is generated. An image-setting unit sets the blend ratio of each converted image in the overlapping image regions for recognition results of an object, and a driving support image synthesized with the set blend ratio is output to a display apparatus.

Apparatus for presenting support images to a driver and method thereof

An objective of the present invention is to generate a more natural composite image wherein a solid object (obstacle) is easily seen. An image detection unit (106) extracts image feature values from images of each camera (101). An image conversion unit (105) computes a blend rate according to the image feature values and composites an image of a superposition area wherein a plurality of camera images overlap. An assessment is made of a correspondence of the image feature values of each image in the superposition area, and a determination is made that a solid object is present if the correlation is weak. Furthermore, a determination is made that the solid object is present in the superposition area if the image feature values in each image have locationally overlapping portions. In such a circumstance, the image is composited with the blend rate of the image with a greater image feature value set large.

Image processing system and image processing method

An image detection unit extracts image feature values from images of each camera. An image conversion unit computes a blend rate according to the image feature values and composites an image of a superposition area wherein a plurality of camera images overlap. An assessment is made of a correspondence of the image feature values of each image in the superposition area, and a determination is made that a solid object is present if the correlation is weak. Furthermore, a determination is made that the solid object is present in the superposition area if the image feature values in each image have locationally overlapping portions. In such a circumstance, the image is composited with the blend rate of the image with a greater image feature value set large.

Haruhiko Higuchi

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Image processing system and image processing method

Image processing system with image conversion unit that composites overhead view images and image processing method