Patent ID: 7653486

Claim:
A surroundings exhibiting system for use in a transportation device, the surroundings exhibiting system comprising: an image capturing section arranged to capture a multi-directional image of the surroundings of the transportation device; a display section arranged to display at least a portion of the multi-directional image captured by the image capturing section; a door sensor arranged to detect at least one of unlocking a door, opening the door, and closing the door; and an ignition instruction detection sensor arranged to detect an operator's ignition instruction to the transportation device; wherein the image capturing section is arranged to capture an image in synchronization with the detection of the at least one of unlocking the door, opening the door, and closing the door; and the display section is arranged to display the image captured by the image capturing section in synchronization with the ignition instruction to show the operator the surroundings of the transportation device in a stopped state.