Driving assistance apparatus

Details Driving assistance apparatus Driving assistance apparatus

Filed on

2005-10-25

Date issued

2005-10-25

Examiner

Le, Vu (Department: 2613)

Patent Class

Television

SubClass

Special applications

SubSubClass

Observation of or from a specific location

Other Related Categories

C348S148000

Type

Reexamination Certificate

Status

active

Patent number

06958770

Description

ABSTRACT:
A driving assistance apparatus includes: cameras; a plurality of virtual observing point converting unit; an image synthesizing unit for synthesizing image information supplied from this virtual observing point converting unit; an obstacle sensing unit such as an ultrasonic-wave sensor and a millimeter-wave radar; a safety area predicting unit; and a safety area superposing unit. Then, the safety area predicting unit predicts such a safety area where an obstacle is not present based upon both a distance “d1” and an approximate direction, which are obtained from the obstacle sensing unit. Also, the safety area superposing unit superposes the safety area predicted by the safety area predicting unit on an image synthesized by way of cameras to display the synthesized image superposed with the safety area.

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