Patent ID: 8872919

Claim:
A vehicle surrounding monitoring device comprising: a first capturing means provided at a side of a vehicle in order to capture a first image; a second capturing means provided at front relative to the first capturing means in order to capture a second image; a displaying means for displaying the first image and the second image and for monitoring a vehicle surrounding; an image process means by which a borderline between the first image and the second image is defined in a combined image of the first image and the second image so as to be identical with a straight line connecting a position of the first capturing means and a position of the second capturing means, wherein the vehicle surrounding monitoring device extracts an image of a solid object from the first image captured by the first capturing means and from the second image captured by the second capturing means, and detects an obstacle from the solid object which may collide with the vehicle, and the vehicle surrounding monitoring device further includes a highlighting process means for creating a highlighting mark which is applied to the obstacle, a drawing process means for superposing the highlighting mark created by the highlighting process means on the combined image displayed on the displaying means, and a similar image detecting process means that detects an image, which is similar to a shape of the obstacle captured in past time in the first image captured by the first capturing means and the second image captured by the second capturing means, and the highlighting process means creates the highlighting mark to be applied to the image detected by the similar image detecting process means; wherein the similar image detecting process means detects an image when the obstacle exists out of the overlapping range between the first image and the second image.