Patent ID: 8058980
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: B60R,G01S

Abstract:
1. A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus comprising: an image capturing device configured and arranged to capture an image of a region rearward of a host vehicle equipped with the vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus and an image of a region laterally rearward of the host vehicle; a display device mounted in an interior of the host vehicle; a blind spot determining section configured and arranged to determine that a following vehicle created blind spot region exists in the region laterally rearward of the host vehicle upon detecting a parameter indicative of a following vehicle blocking an area of the region laterally rearward of the host vehicle; and a processing section configured to switch a displayed image on the display device from a first display image to a second display image in response to the blind spot determining section determining that the following vehicle created blind spot region exists, the first display image including the image of the region rearward of the host vehicle, and the second display image including at least a portion of the image of the region laterally rearward of the host vehicle that encompasses the following vehicle created blind spot region which is absent from the first display image.