Patent ID: 8009869
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surrounding monitoring system comprising: an image-capturing portion that captures an image of at least a portion of an area surrounding a vehicle; a storage portion that stores the image captured by the image-capturing portion; a display-image generation portion that generates a synthesized image for display using a latest image that is captured by the image-capturing portion, and a previous image that is captured before the latest image is captured; and a display portion on which the synthesized image is displayed, wherein the display-image generation portion decreases a level of visibility of an image region relating to the previous image while an elapsed time after the previous image is captured increases, and wherein the display-image generation portion is configured to determine the level of visibility of the image region relating to the previous image based on an amount of elapsed time after the previous image is captured.