EP3585650A1 - Digital viewing system for vehicles - Google Patents
Digital viewing system for vehiclesInfo
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- EP3585650A1 EP3585650A1 EP18712693.3A EP18712693A EP3585650A1 EP 3585650 A1 EP3585650 A1 EP 3585650A1 EP 18712693 A EP18712693 A EP 18712693A EP 3585650 A1 EP3585650 A1 EP 3585650A1
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- vehicle
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- B60R1/22—Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles for viewing an area outside the vehicle, e.g. the exterior of the vehicle
- B60R1/23—Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles for viewing an area outside the vehicle, e.g. the exterior of the vehicle with a predetermined field of view
- B60R1/24—Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles for viewing an area outside the vehicle, e.g. the exterior of the vehicle with a predetermined field of view in front of the vehicle
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Definitions
- the present invention refers to a digital viewing system for vehicles, suitable to be installed on a vehicle for helping a driver when driving under scarce visibility conditions, for example caused by fog, rain or snow.
- the present invention refers to a digital viewing system comprising an image acquisition device, for example a video-camera, adapted to be installed inside and/or outside a motor vehicle.
- Viewing systems are known, which are suitable to be installed on a vehicle for helping a driver when driving under scarce visibility conditions.
- the Applicant has observed that, by using an image acquisition device of a known type, for example a digital video-camera equipped with backlit CMOS sensor and balanced image stabilizer, under scarce visibility conditions on a moving vehicle, a clear viewing is surprisingly obtained even with the presence of fog, rain or snow.
- a digital video-camera equipped with backlit CMOS sensor and balanced image stabilizer
- Object of the present invention is providing a digital viewing system for vehicles, adapted to help a driver when driving a vehicle under scarce visibility conditions, for example caused by fog, rain or snow.
- a further object of the present invention is solving the above prior art problems by providing a digital viewing system suitable to be installed on a vehicle, in particular on a motor vehicle, which uses in particular an image acquisition device, for example a video-camera of a known type, for helping a driver when driving under scarce visibility conditions, for example in case of fog.
- an image acquisition device for example a video-camera of a known type
- Figure 1 shows an external view of a vehicle on which an image acquisition device of a digital viewing system according to the present invention is installed;
- Figure 2 shows an internal view of a vehicle on which displaying means of a digital viewing system according to the present invention are installed
- Figure 3 is a block diagram of an image acquisition device of a digital viewing system according to the present invention.
- FIG 4 shows an external view of a vehicle on which supplementary lighting devices of a digital viewing system according to the present invention are installed.
- a digital viewing system for vehicles of the invention comprises an image acquisition device 11, for example a video-camera of a known type, adapted to be installed on a vehicle to perform shootings both of fixed images and of video sequences.
- the image acquisition device 11 of the invention shown in the block diagram of Figure 3, comprises at least one image sensor 20, for example made with a CCD or CMOS technology according to the known art, adapted to convert an optical beam incident thereon into a plurality of electric signals .
- the image sensor 20 is assembled on a printed circuit board and is electrically connected to a processing module 21 of the images acquired by the sensor, for example assembled on the printed circuit board, and is associated, for example through a data communication line, with displaying means 22 of the images and/or of the video sequences provided in the passenger compartment to be displayed by the vehicle driver, composed for example of a display 22 assembled on the vehicle dashboard, possibly removable, capable of disappearing or be opened as a book, or of the screen of an info-navigation system; other examples of displaying means 22 of the images or of the video sequences are a display connected to the vehicle roof, or means adapted to perform a projection, for example an holographic projection, on the vehicle windscreen.
- the windscreen glass in addition to allow holographic projections, can be made as a total screen which, due to a suitable software, shows the real image with the right and actual viewing depth, adjusted according to the driver and his related visual values/parameters.
- the digital viewing system for vehicles comprises a processing unit, for example integrated in the image acquisition device 11 or external thereto, arranged for generating and/or processing, through software modules, the image adapted to be displayed to the vehicle driver, and for showing to the driver the images and/or video sequences through the displaying means 22 provided in the passenger compartment .
- a processing unit for example integrated in the image acquisition device 11 or external thereto, arranged for generating and/or processing, through software modules, the image adapted to be displayed to the vehicle driver, and for showing to the driver the images and/or video sequences through the displaying means 22 provided in the passenger compartment .
- the processing unit is further adapted to be interfaced, through software modules, with the info-navigation system of the vehicle, for example through the displaying means 22, by turning-on signaling warning lights or through acoustic or voice warnings diffused by the vehicle audio system.
- the image acquisition device 11 is connectable through fastening means to an external part, for example to a front portion of the vehicle body, or to an internal part of the vehicle, for example to the internal part of the windscreen, and is preferably enclosed inside a case resisting to mechanical stresses, equipped with fastening means to the vehicle.
- the image acquisition device 11 is a digital video-camera with an objective, with two objectives or a digital 3D video-camera arranged to simultaneously shoot different scenes, for example three scenes, in lateral regions to the driving position of the vehicle driver.
- the image acquisition device 11 can comprise three objectives, each with a different focusing depth, for example from 50 m to 100 m, from 100 m to 200 m, and from 200 m to 350 m; preferably, the image acquisition device 11 and the objective are placed so that the image or the video sequence shown on the displaying means 22 is axial with the driving position of the vehicle driver; alternatively, every objective can be standard or made with a double 3D objective.
- the video-camera can have a backlit sensor and balanced image stabilizer with autofocus with sensitivity up to ISO 100- 25.600 and LED lights for a better depth, slow motion and face detection, resolution up to 4K, AVCHD compression format, high sensitivities to ISO, an automatic, semi-automatic and even completely manual regulation.
- the digital viewing system for vehicles of the invention comprises the image acquisition device 11 and the displaying means 22 integrated in the same device, for example a smartphone or a tablet, removably installed inside the vehicle, for example assembled on a support connected to the dashboard.
- the digital viewing system for vehicles of the invention further comprises supplementary lighting devices 12 installed in a front side position of the vehicle, for example next to its flanks, which can for example be automatically activated by the processing unit.
- the digital viewing system for vehicles of the invention allows using the normal image processing procedures of an image acquisition device for helping a driver when driving a vehicle under scarce visibility conditions, for example caused by fog, rain or snow.
- the digital viewing system for vehicles of the invention can be used on every type of vehicles, such as motor vehicles, trucks, trains, planes, ships, etc.
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