Patent ID: 8514282

Claim:
A vehicle periphery display device indicating an image of a periphery of a vehicle, the vehicle periphery display device comprising: an imaging unit configured to photograph an image of a periphery of the vehicle; a first object detection unit configured to obtain image information related to at least one of a brightness and a color of the photographed image from the photographed image, obtain position information on the photographed image from the photographed image, detect an object including at least one of a road indication and an on-road object from the obtained image information according to a specific feature of the object in the photographed image by comparing a level of the at least one of the brightness and the color of the photographed image with a predetermined threshold level, the object being detected when the level of the at least one of the brightness and the color of the photographed image exceed the predetermined threshold level, and associate the image information on the object with the position information on the object; a storing unit configured to beforehand store a vehicle image of the vehicle and store history data of the associated image information and the position information; a graphic unit configured to generate an image according to the history data, overlap the generated image and an image including the beforehand stored vehicle image, and convert the overlapped image to be viewed from a predetermined viewpoint, a display screen including a peripheral image display region configured to indicate the present image of the periphery of the vehicle obtained by the imaging unit and a history display region adjacent to the peripheral image display region and configured to indicate the converted image and the object detected from the image information in the converted image at a position according to the associated position information.