Around view monitoring system and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9527443-B2
Application number	US-201414493427-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Sep 30, 2013
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

The present invention provides an AVM system, including: a display module; a camera module which captures surrounding videos of a vehicle; and a control module which calculates an illumination brightness corresponding to an illumination region of a head lamp which is mounted in the vehicle and a shadow brightness corresponding to a shadow region in an AVM video obtained by composing the surrounding videos, generates state information of the head lamp based on the illumination brightness and the shadow brightness, and controls the display module to display the AVM video and the state information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An AVM system, comprising:
a display module;
a camera module which captures surrounding videos of a vehicle;
a lamp driving module which supplies or shuts off a driving power to first and second head lamps which are mounted in the vehicle to turn on or off the first and second head lamps; and
a control module which calculates a first illumination brightness corresponding to a first illumination region of the first head lamp and a first shadow brightness corresponding to a first shadow region, in an AVM video obtained by composing the surrounding videos and a second illumination brightness corresponding to a second illumination region of the second head lamp and a second shadow brightness corresponding to a second shadow region, generates first state information of the first head lamp and second state information of the second head lamp based on the first and second illumination brightnesses and the first and second shadow brightnesses, and controls the display module to display the AVM video and the first and second state information.

2. The AVM system of claim 1 , wherein the lamp driving module supplies or shuts off the driving power to the first and second head lamps in accordance with the control of the control module.

3. The AVM system of claim 1 , wherein the surrounding videos include the front side video, the first and second side videos, and the rear side video of the vehicle and
the control module includes:
a video processing unit which composes the front side video, the first and second side videos, and the rear side video in accordance with a set video composite condition to form an AVM video and calculates the first and second illumination brightnesses corresponding to a pixel which is included in the first and second illumination regions and the first and second shadow brightnesses corresponding to a pixel included in first and second shadow regions, in the AVM video;
a first brightness determining unit which determines whether an illumination brightness difference between the first and second illumination brightnesses falls into a set brightness difference range;
a brightness comparing unit which outputs a first signal when a lower shadow brightness of the first and second shadow brightnesses is smaller than a set reference brightness when the illumination brightness difference falls into the brightness difference range and outputs a second signal when the lower shadow brightness is larger than the reference brightness;
a second brightness determining unit which determines whether a brightness difference between any one of the first and second illumination brightnesses and the shadow brightness falls into the set reference brightness difference range when the first signal is input; and
a control unit which, when the brightness difference falls into the brightness difference range, generates the first and second state information indicating that the first and second head lamps normally operate and when the brightness difference does not fall into the brightness difference range, generates the first and second state information indicating that any one of the first and second head lamps erroneously operates to control the display module to display the first and second state information.

4. The AVM system of claim 3 , wherein when the illumination brightness difference between the first and second illumination brightnesses does not fall into the set brightness difference range, the control unit determines that an obstacle is present in front of any one of the first and second head lamps to control the display module to display obstacle information.

5. The AVM system of claim 3 , wherein the control unit controls the display module to display movement information indicating that the vehicle moves when the second signal is input.

Assignees

• Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ryu Hyun Su

Classifications

• B60R1/00 Primary

  Optical viewing arrangements; 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 · CPC title

• B60R2300/30

  characterised by the type of image processing · CPC title

• B60Q11/005 Primary

  for lighting devices, e.g. indicating if lamps are burning or not · CPC title

• B60R2300/105

  using multiple cameras · CPC title

• H04N7/181

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title