Patent ID: 8294563

Claim:
A vehicle-surrounding image display apparatus comprising: an image input unit configured to input front, rear, left, and right images captured by a plurality of imaging devices disposed at a front side, a rear side, a left side, and a right side of a vehicle, respectively; a top view image generation unit configured to generate a vehicle top image of the vehicle as seen from a perspective above the vehicle by performing viewpoint conversion processing on the front, rear, left, and right images input by the image input unit; a vehicle side image generation unit configured to generate at least one of a vehicle side image as seen from a perspective forward of the imaging devices on the left side and the right side of the vehicle, and a vehicle side image as seen from a perspective rearward of the imaging devices on the left side and the right side of the vehicle, by performing the viewpoint conversion processing on the left and right images input by the image input unit; a vehicle-surrounding image display control unit configured to generate the vehicle side image and the vehicle top image on a display unit and a distinction image generation unit configured to generate distinction images indicative of a correspondence relation between the vehicle side image and a direction in which the vehicle side image is captured in the vehicle top image, wherein a distinction image display control unit displays the distinction images superimposed on the vehicle side image and the vehicle top image.