Patent ID: 8768575

Claim:
A vehicle periphery monitoring device for monitoring the periphery of a vehicle, comprising: an imaging unit that obtains a plurality of peripheral images including a peripheral image of a left rear side of the vehicle and a peripheral image of a right rear side of the vehicle by imaging the periphery of the vehicle; a display unit that displays the plurality of peripheral images imaged in the imaging unit separately from one another without synthesis; and an image control unit that controls the plurality of peripheral images displayed in the display unit, wherein the image control unit varies a distance between the peripheral image of the left rear side of the vehicle and the peripheral image of the right rear side of the vehicle which are displayed adjacent to each other on the display unit, and an angle of view in each of the peripheral image of the left rear side of the vehicle and the peripheral image of the right rear side of the vehicle, the distance between the peripheral image of the left rear side of the vehicle and the peripheral image of the right rear side of the vehicle is set as a first distance when each of the peripheral image of the left rear side of the vehicle and the peripheral image of the right rear side of the vehicle is a narrow angle, and the distance between the peripheral image of the left rear side of the vehicle and the peripheral image of the right rear side of the vehicle is set as a second distance smaller than the first distance when each of the peripheral image of the left rear side of the vehicle and the peripheral image of the right rear side of the vehicle is a wide angle.