Vicinity display for car

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6515597
SERIAL NO

09937515

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0 A vehicle peripheral-area display apparatus comprising: a camera (11) for picking up images of a peripheral area of a vehicle (2); an integration processing unit (21) for detecting the vehicle's own position as positional information via a vehicle sensor (12); a memory (15) for storing present picture data as to the peripheral area of the vehicle picked up by the camera (11), and also for storing positional information as to the picked up images of peripheral area of the vehicle; a picture composite unit (25) for reading past picture data corresponding to the positional information from the memory (15) by way of a memory control unit (24), and for combining own vehicle shape data 'x' with this past picture data; and a display control unit (26) for displaying the picture data combined by this picture composite process unit (25) on a monitor display unit (16). As a result, this vehicle peripheral-area display apparatus of the present invention can display not only the road surface of the lower portion of the vehicle body of this vehicle, but also the past peripheral-area.

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MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTDOSAKA JAPAN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Takahashi, Masami Zushi, JP 85 1586
Wada, Jyoji Yokohama, JP 22 1030

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