Patent ID: 9620009
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B60R,G08G

Claim:
1. A vehicle surroundings monitoring device, comprising: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data of the exterior of a host vehicle; an object detection unit configured to detect an object outside the host vehicle; a vehicle speed detection unit configured to detect a vehicle speed of the host vehicle; a first overhead view display image data generation unit configured to generate first overhead view display image data of surroundings of the host vehicle from the image data; a second overhead view display image data generation unit configured to generate second overhead view display image data of surroundings of the host vehicle which displays the object as an icon from a detection result of the object detection unit; an overhead view display image generation unit configured to generate an overhead view display image of surroundings of the host vehicle based on the first overhead view display image data and the second overhead view display image data; and a display unit configured to display the overhead view display image, wherein, when the vehicle speed is equal to or lower than a threshold value, the overhead view display image generation unit generates an imaged image in which the icon is displayed at the position corresponding to the object as the overhead view display image using the first overhead view display image data and the second overhead view display image data, and wherein, when the vehicle speed exceeds the threshold value, the overhead view display image generation unit generates an icon display image in which the icon is displayed at the position corresponding to the object as the overhead view display image using the second overhead view display image data.