Patent ID: 8207868

Claim:
A display device comprising: a camera for capturing an image around a vehicle body; a monitor provided in a vehicle interior; and a display control unit for controlling a display on the monitor, the monitor having a rectangle-shaped display face, and being supported switchably between a vertically elongated posture and a horizontally elongated posture a shift position sensor for detecting a shift position of a transmission device of the vehicle body, and the display control unit being configured to display a top view image of a road surface around the vehicle body seen from above on the monitor, based on an image captured by the camera, the top view image being displayed based on a determination that the monitor is switched to the vertically elongated posture, and to display the image captured by the camera on the monitor, the image captured by the camera being displayed based on a determination that the monitor is switched to the horizontally elongated posture; wherein the camera is a rear camera for capturing an image rearward of the vehicle body, the display control unit is configured to shift a display mode to a rearward image display mode in which an image captured by the rear camera is displayed on the monitor, when the monitor is set to the horizontally elongated posture and the shift position sensor detects that the shift position is set to a reverse position, and the display control unit is configured to shift the display mode to a top view image display mode in which the top view image is displayed instead of the image captured by the rear camera, when the display mode is in the rearward image display mode and the monitor is switched to the vertically elongated posture; the display control unit is configured to perform a processing of the rearward image display mode in which the image captured by the rear camera is displayed on the monitor instead of the top view image, when the monitor in the top view image display mode is switched to the horizontally elongated posture and the shift position is in the reverse position.