Described examples relate to an apparatus comprising one or more image sensors coupled to a vehicle and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to capture, in a burst sequence using the one or more image sensors, multiple frames of an image of a scene, the multiple frames having respective, relative offsets of the image across the multiple frames and perform super-resolution computations using the captured, multiple frames of the image of the scene. The at least one processor may also be configured to accumulate, based on the super-resolution computations, color planes and combine, using the one or more processors, the accumulated color planes to create a super-resolution image of the scene.

In a vehicle control system, when an occupant visually recognizes a signboard and signboard course information is included in signboard information corresponding to the signboard, the signboard information is displayed on a display device. When the signboard course information out of the signboard information is visually recognized continuously, a control device generates course information based on the signboard course information. The generated course information is output to a vehicle control ECU, and course change processing based on the course information is performed by the vehicle control ECU.

A display device for a vehicle, including: a rear imaging section that captures a rear image; a rear lateral imaging section that captures rear lateral images; and a control section that generates a combined image in which a rear processed image obtained by processing the rear image with a first parameter, and rear lateral processed images obtained by processing rear lateral images with a second parameter, are combined, wherein the control section further identifies an object existing in the rear image or the rear lateral images; acquires relative information including relative position and relative speed of the object with respect to the vehicle, and blind spot regions of the combined image; and, based thereon, if the object will disappear from the combined image due to entering into the blind spot regions, changes the blind spot regions by adjusting the first and second parameters.

An image processing method is operable in an image acquisition system comprising a camera arranged to capture successive images with a field of view, FOV of a portion of an environment surrounding a vehicle, the FOV intersecting a window of the vehicle comprising one or more heater elements that are visible within the FOV of the camera. The method comprises: obtaining an image; determining whether one or more sequences of pixels within the image corresponds to an image of a respective heater element, each pixel within the or each sequence of pixels having a colour and an intensity within respective thresholds; correcting, within the image, the or each sequence of pixels corresponding to a respective heater element by replacing pixel values for the or each sequence of pixels with pixel values derived from pixels which do not correspond with a heater element; and displaying the corrected image.

A characteristic of a flicker component is detected to perform object detection at a higher speed and with higher accuracy. An object detection device according to an embodiment is provided with a solid-state imaging device (200) provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, the solid-state imaging device that detects, according to a light amount incident on each of the pixels, occurrence of an event in the pixel, a flicker detection unit (12) that generates flicker information on the basis of the occurrence of the event detected by the solid-state imaging device, and an object detection unit (15) that detects an object on the basis of the flicker information detected by the solid-state imaging device.

Provided are an apparatus and a method for generating a two-dimensional map or a surround-view image in which an object with low position reliability is set as an enlarged display object. A data processing section configured to receive an image captured by a camera that captures the image of surroundings of a vehicle and generate a two-dimensional map including objects in the surroundings of the vehicle is included. The data processing section generates the two-dimensional map or a surround-view image including an enlarged display object having an enlarged region set thereto, the enlarged region which, in case of an object with low position reliability, extends around the object. The data processing section determines that an object whose image height is equal to or greater than a predetermined image height threshold is an object with low position reliability, while determining that an object whose image height is not equal to or greater than the image height threshold is an object with high position reliability.

Technologies and techniques for representing at least one virtual element in a display area of at least one display device of a vehicle. The display area of a display device is used as efficiently as possible, so that the driver of the vehicle is afforded a clear representation of the information needed and the driver is not unnecessarily diverted, it is provided that virtual elements of at least one first vehicle are marked and represented in the display area of the display device.

An image of a work attachment (operation mechanism) of a work machine and the periphery of the work attachment, which corresponds to captured image data acquired by an imaging device, is displayed on an image output device by means of a first communication mode established between a slave control device mounted in the work machine and a master control device. When the first communication mode is interrupted, instead of the image of the operation mechanism of the work machine and the periphery of the operation mechanism, a point cloud image corresponding to distance image data acquired by a distance sensor is displayed on the image output device by means of a second communication mode established between the slave control device and the master control device.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and having an exterior field of view. The camera includes a wide angle lens providing the field of view and the camera captures an image data set representative of the field of view of the camera. During a driving maneuver of the vehicle, an image processor processes a sub-set of the image data set to determine presence of an object in a sub-portion of the field of view of the camera. The sub-set of the image data set that is processed at the image processor is representative of the sub-portion of the field of view of the camera that is less than the field of view of the camera. The sub-set of the image data set that is processed at the image processor is based on steering direction of the vehicle during the driving maneuver of the vehicle.

Aspects of the present invention relate to a composite image generation system (1) for a vehicle. The system includes one or more controller (10). The composite image generation system (1) has an input configured to receive first image data (DIMG1) from a first imaging device (C1), the first image data (DIMG1) has a first time stamp (TST1-(t)) indicative of a time at which the first image data (DIMG1) was captured by the first imaging device (C1); and second image data (DIMG2) from a second imaging device (C2), the second image data (DIMG2) has a second time stamp (TST2-(t)) indicative of a time at which the second image data (DIMG2) was captured by the second imaging device (C2). The one or more controller (10)is configured to compare the first time stamp (TST1-(t)) with the second time stamp (TST2-(t)) to determine a time stamp discrepancy (TSTΔ). The one or more controller (10) generates composite image data (DIMG3) comprising at least a part of the FOV.sub.2 first image data (DIMG1) and at least a part of the second image data (DIMG2). The one or more controller (10) is configured to control the output of the composite image data (DIMG3) in dependence on the time stamp discrepancy (TSTΔ). The present invention also relates to a vehicle; and to a method of generating a composite image.