Patent ID: 8054201

Claim:
A surroundings monitoring device for a vehicle, which monitors a blind area within an area expanding in front of a driver on both sides, comprising: a real-image picking-up means provided at a front portion of the vehicle so as to pick up a real image of the blind area; a moving object detecting means operative to recognize a moving object from the real image picked up by the real-image picking-up means and detect a moving state of the moving object; an imaginary-image specifying means operative to specify an indication manner of an imaginary image which is to be indicated for showing the moving state of the moving object detected by the moving object detecting means; and an indicating means operative to indicate the imaginary image of the moving object in the indication manner which is specified by the imaginary-image specifying means such that the imaginary image of the moving object indicated by the indicating means overlaps the real image picked up by the real-image picking-up means; wherein said imaginary-image specifying means is configured to specify the indication manner of the imaginary image of the moving object such that the imaginary image of the moving object is indicated at an arrival position where the moving object is predicted to arrive after a specified time on an extended line of a moving direction of the moving object.