A tangent line, described next, is, in top view, parallel to a straight line extending in a width direction of the display surface in a range in which the attitude can be changed. The tangent line is present on a plane orthogonal to the up-down direction of the automobile, and contacts a center of the final reflective surface. In top view, of an angle formed by a straight line connecting a center of the final reflective surface with a center of the display surface and the tangent line of the final reflective surface, a supplementary angle which is supplementary to an angle that is on a rear side of the automobile and that is on a side where the observer is present is an acute angle of less than 90 degrees.

A vehicle control system includes: a sensor; a first controller configured to output a first control signal for controlling the sensor via the first signal line; and a second controller configured to output a second control signal for controlling the sensor via the first signal line and the second signal line, wherein the sensor is configured to operate according to the first control signal output from the first controller via the first signal line when a vehicle state that indicates a state of a vehicle is a first state, and operate according to the second control signal output from the second controller via the first signal line and the second signal line when the vehicle state is a second state.

A device and a method for controlling an operation of a side and rear view watching camera monitoring system (CMS) are provided. The device for controlling an operation of a side and rear watching CMS includes a camera that is configured to capture side and rear images of a vehicle and a display that is configured to display the images captured by the camera. A controller is configured to determine an image-off signal of a user and turn the images of the display off when the image-off signal is applied and a certain period of time elapses. The controller receives the image-off signal of the user, maintains the display in an ON state for a preset time, and turns electric power of the display off.

An automatic panning system and method adapted for a vehicle with an attached trailer. The automatic panning system comprises an image capturing means adapted to capture image data with a view of the trailer and the automatic panning system is adapted to analyze the image data to identify at least one elongated element of the trailer, project a vector in the image data based on said elongated element, establish at least one reference vector, and identify an interception point of the reference vector and said projected vector.

A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a display processing unit configured to display, on a display, a peripheral image representing a virtual gaze area including a virtual gaze point viewed from a virtual viewpoint in a virtual space in which a situation in a periphery of a vehicle is reflected, based on a captured image acquired by capturing an image of the periphery of the vehicle; and a change processing unit configured to change a viewpoint radius corresponding to a distance between the virtual gaze point and the virtual viewpoint and a viewing angle corresponding to a range of the virtual gaze area viewed from the virtual viewpoint in accordance with a change in a situation on a left side or a right side in a traveling direction of the vehicle.

Provided is an image pickup system including: a front camera sensor; and a camera sensor for image generation having a second horizontal angle of view. The latter camera sensor includes: an image sensor having an image pickup surface; and an optical system having a lens. The image sensor has: a specific region in which light from an object positioned within a diagonal lateral azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface; and a residual region in which light from an object positioned within a residual azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface, the residual azimuth angle range being obtained by excluding the diagonal lateral azimuth angle range from the second horizontal angle of view. The lens has a curved surface formed so that a horizontal pixel density in the specific region becomes larger than that in the residual region.

The invention relates to adapting to a vehicle configuration an image displayed on a monitor. The vehicle comprises a camera assembly comprising a supporting arm mounted on the cab and a camera on said supporting arm for providing a captured image of an area located rearwards and along a vehicle side. The method comprises determining if the vehicle is in a first configuration with a trailer connected to the cab or in a second configuration with no trailer connected to the cab. The method comprises automatically processing the captured image to display on the monitor either a first image corresponding which corresponds to a part of the captured image defined by a first frame when the vehicle is in the first configuration, or a second image corresponding to a part of the captured image defined by a second frame when the vehicle is in the second configuration.

Provided is a vehicular image capturing system capable of further improving characteristics such as a reduction in power consumption. The system includes: an event detection unit, installed in a vehicle, that outputs an event signal in accordance with an amount of change in an intensity of received light from a predetermined light receiving range; an image capturing unit, installed in the vehicle, that performs image capturing, the image capturing being an operation of generating and accumulating a charge in accordance with an intensity of received light from a predetermined image capturing range that at least partially overlaps with the predetermined light receiving range, and generating image information in accordance with an accumulation amount of the charge; and a control unit that outputs, to the image capturing unit, a control signal according to the event signal.

An imaging device of the present disclosure includes an event detection sensor that detects an event, and a control unit that controls the event detection sensor. Then, the control unit switches a resolution of the event detection sensor depending on a traveling state of a mobile body. Furthermore, the imaging system of the present disclosure includes an event detection sensor that detects an event; a control unit that switches a resolution of the event detection sensor depending on a traveling state of a mobile body; and an object recognition unit that performs event recognition on the basis of an event signal output from the event detection sensor.

A method for alerting a driver when a cyclist is detected near an ego vehicle is described. The method includes detecting a presence of an object proximate the ego vehicle. The method also includes identifying the object as the cyclist according to geometric characteristics and/or speed data of the detected object. The method further includes displaying a graphical indication of the cyclist on a passenger side/driver side mirror of the ego vehicle while the cyclist is in a blind spot of the ego vehicle.