Patent ID: 7693303

Claim:
A monitoring system to which camera images shot by a plurality of cameras installed to a moving body are input, comprising: a parameter storage section for storing a plurality of image synthesis parameters each expressing correspondence between camera images and a synthetic image and a plurality of detection parameters each defining specification of moving object detection; a parameter selection section for selecting each one from the plurality of image synthesis parameters and the plurality of detection parameters which are stored in the parameter storage section; an image synthesis section for generating a synthetic image showing a state of a monitoring region by synthesizing the camera images according to the image synthesis parameter selected by the parameter selection section; and a moving object detection section for detecting a moving object in the synthetic image based on the detection parameter selected by the parameter selection section, wherein the parameter selection section performs parameter selection according to a state of the moving body and taking account of a detection result by the moving object detection section, and the parameter selection section performs parameter selection taking account of a currently selected image synthesis parameter, wherein the parameter selection section performs the modification for a part corresponding to a region surrounding the moving object region in addition to the moving object region.