Patent ID: 8144033
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: B60R,G06T

Abstract:
1. A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus comprising: an image capturing device configured and arranged to capture a first original image of a region rearward of a vehicle and a second original image of a region laterally rearward of the vehicle; a display device mounted in an interior of the vehicle, the display device including a first display area and a second display area disposed on a lateral side of the first display area; and an image processing device configured to display a first displayed image from the first original image of the region rearward of the vehicle in the first display area of the display device and to display a second displayed image from the second original image of the region laterally rearward of the vehicle in the second display area of the display device to form a combined image on the display device with the second displayed image being horizontally compressed from the second original image to at least a greater degree than the first displayed image, the image processing device being configured to compress the first original image of the region rearward of the vehicle captured by the image capturing device to display the first displayed image in the first display area of the display device, the second displayed image having first and second lateral edges, with the first lateral edge being adjacent the first display area, and the image processing device being further configured to process the second original image so that the second displayed image displayed in the second display area is gradually compressed to a greater degree as one moves in a horizontal direction away from the first lateral edge toward the second lateral edge.