Cognitive analysis of driver's behavior with seamless display of back-monitor and side-view mirror

The accidents during reverse operation of vehicle are one of the traffic accidents often occur. To solve this problem, back-monitor system becomes very popular to provide blind spot information of car for drivers. The back-monitor system assists driver to get visual information of the rear of the car. This camera's view is usually displayed on the car navigation monitor in the dash board panel and drivers must watch many independent viewers, such as mirrors, monitors, and outside, while switching. This separating information and position must cause the difficulties to imagine the images of the wide area of the rear of the cars. In this paper, we proposed a display manner for display method of the back-monitor system which allows objects to not increase more. We conducted the experiment to investigate whether the distance that line of sight has been moved affects the parking and to consider the display method (Seamless, Overlap, and Discrete) of the rear vision before proposing our system. The results showed that overlap picture had good results as the distance between the monitors close. We proposed the rear view system that combines back-monitor system and side-view mirror. The part that reflects body of the car of side-view mirror displayed rear vision that overlaps vision of side-view mirror. We conducted the experiment to evaluate whether this system allows to drivers to park their car safety and precisely using our system. And we compared this proposed system to the traditional back-monitor system. The results showed that it is possible to exactly grasp the situation around the driver by our system. In particular, it is effective for the recognition of the right rear. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.