A drive assist display apparatus comprising: one or more imaging sections operable to take an image of a wide area of one of rear and front of a vehicle; an image processing section operable to create a main view showing an image of a wide area around the vehicle by clipping or correcting from the image taken by the imaging sections, create a sub view (21-1 - 21-4) showing a view point conversion image of a vicinity of the vehicle from the image taken by the imaging sections as if looked down from a virtual viewpoint, combine the main view with the sub view, and fill a space with a mask picture; and an image displaying section operable to display the image processed by the image processing section, wherein: the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) in which the vicinity of the vehicle on a left side and on a right side of the sub view has the width nearly equal to the width of the vehicle, and the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) formed by the mask picture to have two sides each corresponding to a backward or forward direction of the vehicle with spreading the two sides widely in response to an increasing distance from a corresponding position of the vehicle, characterized in that the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) to show the view point conversion image of the vicinity of the vehicle and of a moderate part of the bumper of the vehicle. one or more imaging sections operable to take an image of a wide area of one of rear and front of a vehicle; an image processing section operable to create a main view showing an image of a wide area around the vehicle by clipping or correcting from the image taken by the imaging sections, create a sub view (21-1 - 21-4) showing a view point conversion image of a vicinity of the vehicle from the image taken by the imaging sections as if looked down from a virtual viewpoint, combine the main view with the sub view, and fill a space with a mask picture; and an image displaying section operable to display the image processed by the image processing section, wherein: the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) in which the vicinity of the vehicle on a left side and on a right side of the sub view has the width nearly equal to the width of the vehicle, and the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) formed by the mask picture to have two sides each corresponding to a backward or forward direction of the vehicle with spreading the two sides widely in response to an increasing distance from a corresponding position of the vehicle, the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) in which the vicinity of the vehicle on a left side and on a right side of the sub view has the width nearly equal to the width of the vehicle, and the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) formed by the mask picture to have two sides each corresponding to a backward or forward direction of the vehicle with spreading the two sides widely in response to an increasing distance from a corresponding position of the vehicle, characterized in that the drive assist display apparatus is designed to display the sub view (21-1 - 21-4) to show the view point conversion image of the vicinity of the vehicle and of a moderate part of the bumper of the vehicle.