Patent ID: 8441536

Claim:
A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: an imaging device that is configured to capture a periphery image, wherein the periphery image shows a periphery of the vehicle and an object-in-periphery, wherein the object-in-periphery is located in the periphery of the vehicle, wherein the object-in-periphery includes at least one of an road-surface mark and an on-road object; a storage unit that is configured to store history data comprising at least one of the periphery image and information on the object-in-periphery, wherein the information on the object-in-periphery is extracted from the periphery image or acquired from a sensor equipped in the vehicle, wherein a vehicle image representative of the vehicle is pre-stored in the storage unit; a display screen that has a real-time displaying part for displaying thereon the periphery image presently captured by the imaging device without correcting distortion of the presently-captured periphery image, wherein the displayed periphery image shows a present situation of the periphery of the vehicle, and a history displaying part for displaying thereon the vehicle image from the storage unit and a history image from the storage unit, wherein the history image is produced based on the history data and shows the periphery of the vehicle presently outside a field of view of the imaging device, wherein the history displaying part adjoins the real-time displaying part; and a drawing section that is configured to super imposingly draw the vehicle image and the history image each taken from a predetermined view point on the history displaying part of the display screen, such that: the vehicle image and the history image displayed on the history displaying part have the distortion that the periphery image displayed on the real-time displaying part has; and the object-in-periphery displayed on the history displaying part is continuously connected to the object in-periphery shown displayed on the real-time displaying part; wherein the history image displayed on the history displaying part was taken at a time prior to the periphery image presently captured by the imaging device and displayed on the real-time displaying part.