Patent ID: 6999602

Claim:
A rendering device for generating a drive assistant image of an area around a vehicle for drive assistance, said device comprising: an image receiving part operable to receive images captured by a plurality of image capture devices, which are fixed in the vehicle respectively, operable to capture images of the area around the vehicle, the captured images include at least one overlapped region; a steering angle receiving part operable to receive a steering angle of the vehicle detected by a steering angle sensor fixed in the vehicle; a trajectory deriving part operable to derive an estimated trajectory for the vehicle to take based on the steering angle received by said steering angle receiving part; and an image processing part operable to perform pixel selection from the captured images received by said image receiving part according to the steering angle received by said steering angle receiving part, and based on a result of the pixel selection, to generate the drive assistant image, wherein if the estimated trajectory derived by said trajectory deriving part is designated over an overlapped region, said image processing part is operable to select pixels from a captured image received by said image receiving part representing one side of the overlapped region with respect to an imaginary line, and to select pixels from another captured image representing the other side of the overlapped region with respect to the imaginary line, and the imaginary line is one selected from a group including the estimated trajectory, a line displaced by a predetermined amount parallel to the estimated trajectory, and a chord of the estimated trajectory.