Patent ID: 8675041

Claim:
A vehicle periphery monitoring device for subjecting an image captured by a camera provided to a vehicle to predetermined image processing, and displaying the image on an onboard display device, the vehicle periphery monitoring device comprising: a coordinate axes setting unit for setting a first axis along an edge of the vehicle body in the captured image, and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, the camera being disposed so as to include the edge of the vehicle body in the captured image; and a distortion correction processor for enlarging the captured image at a magnification ratio that increases in the second axis direction in a nonlinear fashion that depends on the distance from the second axis while a magnification ratio in the first axis direction is kept substantially fixed, wherein the captured image corrected for distortion is displayed on the display device; the first axis direction is a vertical direction of the captured image, and the second axis direction is a lateral direction of the captured image.