Patent ID: 7643911

Claim:
A vehicle periphery display control system which displays peripheral images of a vehicle which are captured by a plurality of cameras mounted on the vehicle in respective different positions thereon, comprising: a storage medium configured to store road configuration information; a present position identifying unit configured to identify the present position of the vehicle; a selecting unit configured to select at least one of images captured by the cameras based on specific road configuration information of a peripheral area around the vehicle, which includes the present position identified by said present position identifying unit, said specific road configuration information being retrieved from the road configuration information stored in said storage medium; a display unit configured to display the image selected by said selecting unit; and an input unit configured to enter a user's action and output a signal responsive to the user's action; wherein the selecting unit is configured to communicate with the plurality of cameras each configured with a fish-eye lens, the cameras being disposed to jointly capture images of all front, rear, left, and right peripheral areas of the vehicle, the selecting unit is configured to display a display format of the selected image based on the signal from the input unit, and use selective items for the display format including whether or not the selected image is to be corrected out of a distortion by the fish-eye lens, a position of a viewpoint in the selected image, and whether the vehicle is to be displayed hypothetically in the selected image, the display unit is configured to display the selected image based on the display format selected by the selecting unit, and the display unit includes a plurality of monitors and is configured to display the selected image on at least one of the monitors disposed at a position corresponding to a position where the selected image is captured.