VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE

Organization Name

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor(s)

Masaya Muramatsu of Toyota-shi JP

Yuki Yamamoto of Toyota-shi JP

Kohei Maejima of Nagakute-shi JP

VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18923677 titled 'VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE

Original Abstract Submitted

A video display device includes: a camera configured to capture video of surroundings of a vehicle; a storage unit configured to store the video captured by the camera as past video; a control unit configured to select video to be synthesized from real-time video captured by the camera and the past video stored in the storage unit based on a situation around the vehicle or a traveling state of the vehicle, and output bird's-eye view video looking down at the vehicle from a viewpoint above the vehicle, the bird's-eye view video being obtained by synthesizing the video selected; and a display unit configured to display the bird's-eye view video output by the control unit.