Patent ID: 8462210

Claim:
A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus comprising: an imaging device configured to capture a vehicle periphery image with a wide horizontal field of view; a display device including a display screen, a dimension of the display screen in a vertical direction being larger than that in a horizontal direction; and a display controller configured to: determine, based on input received from a user, a part of the vehicle periphery image to be presented in detail; produce a predetermined-part image that is an enlarged image of the part of the vehicle periphery image to be presented in detail; cause the display device to display the vehicle periphery image and the predetermined-part image on the display screen such that the vehicle periphery image and the predetermined-part image are arranged one above the other in the vertical direction; and cause the display device to further display a guide image extending, with a reverse-tapered shape, from the part of the vehicle periphery image toward the predetermined-part image to indicate which part of the vehicle periphery image is enlarged as the predetermined-part image.