Marine vessel and marine vessel operation support device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11059549-B2
Application number	US-202016801468-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2020
Priority date	Mar 19, 2019
Publication date	Jul 13, 2021
Grant date	Jul 13, 2021

Abstract

A marine vessel includes a hull including a cabin, an imager that images a field-of-view shielded region, which is a region in which a marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator located on an operation seat provided inside the cabin looks around an outside of the marine vessel in a horizontal direction, and a display provided at a position visible from the operation seat and that displays a field-of-view complement image, which is an image of the field-of-view shielded region captured by the imager.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A marine vessel comprising:
a hull including a cabin;
an imager that images a field-of-view shielded region, which is a region in which a marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator located on an operation seat provided inside the cabin looks around an outside of the marine vessel in a horizontal direction; and
a display provided at a position visible from the operation seat and that displays a field-of-view complement image, which is an image of the field-of-view shielded region captured by the imager; wherein
the imager images at least a front portion of the field-of-view shielded region;
the display displays the field-of-view complement image including an image of the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region;
the cabin includes a window in front of the operation seat; and
the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region includes the region in which the marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator looks at the outside of the marine vessel in the horizontal direction from a height of a center point of the window in a vertical direction, the center point being located above the operation seat.

2. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein the display is located adjacent to or in a vicinity of the operation seat.

3. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein
the imager images a rear portion of the field-of-view shielded region in addition to the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region; and
the display displays the field-of-view complement image including the image of the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region and an image of the rear portion of the field-of-view shielded region.

4. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein
the imager images a rear portion of the field-of-view shielded region in addition to the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region;
the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region includes a first region obstructed by a front shield including a front pillar of the cabin; and
the rear portion of the field-of-view shielded region includes a second region obstructed by a rear shield including a rear wall of the cabin.

5. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein a sum of angular ranges of the field-of-view shielded region in the horizontal direction around the operation seat in a plan view is 90 degrees or more and 360 degrees or less.

6. The marine vessel according to claim 5 , wherein the sum of the angular ranges of the field-of-view shielded region is 180 degrees or more and 360 degrees or less.

7. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein a sum of angular ranges of the field-of-view shielded region in the horizontal direction around the operation seat in a plan view is 60 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less within the field-of-view shielded region forward of the operation seat.

8. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein a sum of angular ranges of the field-of-view shielded region in the horizontal direction around the operation seat in a plan view is 60 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less within the field-of-view shielded region rearward of the operation seat.

9. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein a sum of angular ranges of the field-of-view shielded region in the horizontal direction around the operation seat in a plan view is 60 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less within the field-of-view shielded region leftward or rightward of the operation seat.

10. The marine vessel according to claim 9 , wherein the sum of the angular ranges of the field-of-view shielded region in the horizontal direction around the operation seat in the plan view is 120 degrees or more and 180 degrees or less within the field-of-view shielded region leftward or rightward of the operation seat.

11. The marine vessel according to claim 9 , wherein the display is provided on a shield that generates the field-of-view shielded region.

12. The marine vessel according to claim 11 , wherein the display displays the field-of-view complement image including the image of the field-of-view shielded region generated due to the shield on which the display is provided.

13. The marine vessel according to claim 11 , wherein the display is provided on a surface of the shield on a side of the operation seat.

14. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein the display is provided inside the cabin at a position at which the display is viewable by the marine vessel operator located on the operation seat when the marine vessel operator looks at the outside of the marine vessel at least in a forward and horizontal direction.

15. The marine vessel according to claim 1 , wherein the display is provided over an entire inner periphery of the cabin.

16. A marine vessel operation support device comprising:
an imager that images a field-of-view shielded region, which is a region in which a marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator located on an operation seat provided inside a cabin looks around an outside of a marine vessel in a horizontal direction; and
a display provided at a position visible from the operation seat and that displays a field-of-view complement image, which is an image of the field-of-view shielded region captured by the imager; wherein
the imager images at least a front portion of the field-of-view shielded region;
the display displays the field-of-view complement image including an image of the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region;
the cabin includes a window in front of the operation seat; and
the front portion of the field-of-view shielded region includes the region in which the marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator looks at the outside of the marine vessel in the horizontal direction from a height of a center point of the window in a vertical direction, the center point being located above the operation seat.

17. The marine vessel operation support device according to claim 16 , wherein the display is located adjacent to or in a vicinity of the operation seat.

Assignees

• Yamaha Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Terada Kohei
• Amma Hirofumi
• Kinoshita Yoshimasa
• Fukumoto Shimpei
• Kurokawa Mitsuaki

Classifications

• H04N23/57

  Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices · CPC title

• H04N23/54

  Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils · CPC title

• H04N7/183

  for receiving images from a single remote source · CPC title

• B63B29/02

  Cabins or other living spaces; Construction or arrangement thereof · CPC title

• B63B49/00 Primary

  Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids (nautical measuring instruments G01C; radio navigation, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) · CPC title