Patent ID: 8130270

Claim:
A vehicle-mounted image capturing apparatus comprising: cameras provided at multiple locations on a vehicle, each camera being directed to capture an image in a range of an area away from the vehicle to part of the vehicle and being provided with a lens configured for focusing light of an image of a wide-angle space area and a photodetector device for detecting the light focused by the lens; an image processor performing combination processing for combining the images captured by the respective cameras into an image of a surrounding area outside the vehicle and for combining an image of the vehicle with the image of the surrounding area outside the vehicle, wherein the image of the surrounding area outside the vehicle includes at least one image-absent portion adjacent to the vehicle, the image processor further performing combination processing for fitting an actual image of part of the vehicle captured by at least one of the cameras into at least part of a border portion between the image of the surrounding area outside the vehicle and the image of the vehicle, wherein the border portion contains the at least one image-absent portion; and a display device for displaying a combined image generated by the image processor.