Patent ID: 7554461

Claim:
A computer-readable recording medium storing a parking support program for causing a computer to display an image for supporting the operation of parking an own vehicle, the program causing the computer to execute: an image pickup step that shoots the environment of the own vehicle to acquire a picked up image of the environment, detects the position of the own vehicle to define it as a shooting position and stores the picked up image and the shooting position in association with each other; an image generation step that generates an environment image that is an image of the environment as viewed from a predetermined viewpoint according to the picked up image, the shooting position as stored in the image pickup step and the predetermined viewpoint and also generates an own vehicle image that is an image of the own vehicle as viewed from the viewpoint according to the position of the own vehicle, the profile information of the own vehicle that is stored in advance and the viewpoint and then generates a synthetic image that is an image synthesized from the environment image and the own vehicle image; and a display step that displays the synthetic image generated in the image generation step.