Patent ID: 8045003

Claim:
An onboard display device for displaying information concerning a vehicle condition and image data inputted by an image capture section which captures an image around a vehicle, comprising: a display control section arranged to cause a display screen of the onboard display device which display screen is longer in width than in height (i) to concurrently display an additional image such as a navigation image and the information concerning the vehicle condition in a normal running mode and (ii) to display a rightward rear view image or a leftward rear view image captured by the image capture section only when an image display instruction for checking a rightward rear view or an image display instruction for checking a leftward rear view is supplied from the vehicle; and an image processing section arranged (i) to cause a speedometer out of the information concerning the vehicle condition to be fixedly displayed in front of a driver, (ii) to cause the leftward rear view image out of the image data inputted by the image capture section to be displayed on a left side of the speedometer when the image display instruction for checking the leftward rear view is received, and (iii) to cause the rightward rear view image out of the image data inputted by the image capture section to be displayed on a right side of the speedometer when the image display instruction for checking the rightward rear view is received, the leftward rear view image and the rightward rear view image not being concurrently displayed; wherein the image processing section is arranged to display the leftward rear view image or the rightward rear view image in a trapezoidal shape; and the leftward rear view image or the rightward rear view image has a trapezoidal shape whose shorter side is located on a side closer to the vehicle.