IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVABLE BODY, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• Main Author: HIGASHIYAMA TERUYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.10.2023
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To provide an image processing apparatus that can create an appropriate bird's-eye-view image even when, for example, a movable body is moving.SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus has: image acquisition means that acquires a photographic image obtained by photographing the periphery of a movable body; distance information acquisition means that acquires information on the distance to an object on the periphery of the movable body; first bird's-eye-view image creation means that creates a first bird's-eye-view image from the plurality of photographic images by using the distance information; second bird's-eye-view image creation means that creates a second bird's-eye-view image from the plurality of photographic images without using the distance information; moving state detection means that detects the moving state of the movable body or the object; and control means that, according to the moving state, causes the first bird's-eye-view image creation means or the second bird's-eye-view image creation means to create either one of the first bird's-eye-view image or the second bird's-eye-view image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】例えば移動体が動いている場合などにおいても、適切な俯瞰画像を生成できる画像処理装置を提供する。【解決手段】画像処理装置において、移動体の周囲を撮影した撮影画像を取得する画像取得手段と、前記移動体の周囲の物体までの距離情報を取得する距離情報取得手段と、前記距離情報を用いて、複数の前記撮影画像から第１俯瞰画像を生成する第１の俯瞰画像生成手段と、前記距離情報を用いずに、複数の前記撮影画像から第２俯瞰画像を生成する第２の俯瞰画像生成手段と、前記移動体又は前記物体の移動状態を検知する移動状態検知手段と、前記移動状態に応じて、前記第１の俯瞰画像生成手段又は前記第２の俯瞰画像生成手段により、前記第１俯瞰画像又は前記第２俯瞰画像の一方を生成する制御手段と、を有する。【選択図】 図３