Patent ID: 8461972

Claim:
A movable object periphery monitoring system comprising: a transmission device including a transmitter and a receiver configured to transmit an image signal of an image of a periphery of a movable object from an imaging device to a display device near a driver of the movable object, using the transmitter and the receiver through a first transmission path and a second transmission path, wherein the transmitter is configured to add error detection information to each unit data item of an indication screen of the display device to generate an image signal and transmit the image signal, the receiver is configured to detect an error in the first transmission path using the error detection information; and the receiver is further configured to, when continuously detecting an error in a plurality of transmitted unit data items, determine that malfunction occurs in a transmission state of the first transmission path and select an image signal transmitted through the second transmission path instead of an image signal transmitted through the first transmission path.