Patent ID: 8400329

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying an image for a vehicle, comprising: an imaging unit configured to input a camera image of surroundings of the vehicle, the surroundings including at least one of a front side and a back side of the vehicle along a running direction; a first image generation unit configured to generate a mask image to conceal a protection region of personal information included in a region of a first vehicle on the camera image, the first vehicle existing at the front side or the back side of the vehicle; a surroundings-monitoring unit configured to decide whether a second vehicle exists at a front side or a back side of the first vehicle by monitoring the camera image, the second vehicle being running at the front side of the first vehicle before the vehicle or at the back side of the first vehicle rear of the vehicle; a second image generation unit configured to generate an imitation image of the second vehicle which does not include the same type of mask image of the first vehicle when the surroundings-monitoring unit decides that the second vehicle exists; and a processing unit configured to generate a composite image by combining the mask image and the imitation image with the camera image so that the imitation image is completely visible even when at least a portion of the second vehicle is hidden from view by the first vehicle, and to present the composite image to a user of the vehicle via a display.