Nissan has completed the development of the world's first Around View Monitor. The Nissan Around View Monitor system allows the driver to have a bird's eye view of the car and the surrounding area. The Around View Monitor will debut in the new Nissan Elgrand that will be introduced at the end of October 2007.
Nissan Press Release:
NISSAN TO INTRODUCE WORLD'S FIRST AROUND VIEW MONITOR
TOKYO (Oct. 12, 2007) -- Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. will introduce the world's first Around View Monitor, which offers the driver a bird’s eye view of the vehicle and its surroundings in
real-time. In Japan, the Around View Monitor will debut in the new Elgrand, scheduled for introduction at the end of this month. The technology will also be offered to the U.S market on the all new Infiniti EX35 scheduled for launch this December.
The Around View Monitor system sythesizes a bird’s eye image of the vehicle and its surrounding from four ultrawide-angle (180-degree) high-resolution cameras mounted on the front, sides and rear of the vehicle. The Around View Monitor is particularly helpful when parking, enabling the driver
to steer easily and precisely into a parking space.
The screen in photo 2 displays the view from above on the left, and a front or rear view on the right. The front and rear views alternates according to the gear shift. This allows the driver a comprehensive view of the vehicle and its surrounding environment from all angles.
Photo 3: The left side-view is offered with the rear view, allowing the driver to more easily observe both the rear and left-front when attempting to parallel-park.
The driver has the option to choose between the top view and the left side-view.
The camera-enabled sensors mounted on all four corners of the vehicle depict the distance to an obstacle in easy-to-understand colored graphics, and help warn the driver via a “beeping” alert the closer the vehicle approaches an fixed obstacle.
