Patent ID: 8508657

Claim:
A test device for examining the shooting direction of a camera apparatus installed on a vehicle, comprising: a mounting member; a camera apparatus attached to a body of a vehicle via said mounting member, and configured to photograph a situation ahead of the vehicle and output a photographed image; a processing unit for superimposing a specific judgment pattern on a specific position of said photographed image; and a display device for displaying said photographed image, wherein said processing unit is configured to perform the superimposition operation based on a photographed image taken of a test chart placed at a predefined position ahead of the vehicle with a specific reference pattern on the test chart, said display device is configured to display the position of said reference pattern on said photographed image and the position of said judgment pattern in a manner that they are compared with each other, said mounting member is a replaceable member being independent of said camera apparatus wherein the shooting direction of said camera apparatus is determined by the shape of said mounting member, and said mounting member is a plate-like member having a tapered shape in cross section along the shooting direction, and a vertical component of the shooting direction of said camera apparatus is determined by said tapered shape.