Patent ID: 8395490

Claim:
A blind spot display apparatus that displays an image of an object in a blind spot of a vehicle, said apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store omni-directional images which have been obtained from cameras at different positions and each of which includes the image of the object in the blind spot and an image of the vehicle; an object model generating unit operably coupled to the storage unit to calculate a coordinate position of the object seen from a predetermined camera among the cameras, using a difference between coordinate positions of the images of the object that are included in the omni-directional images; a vehicle model generating unit operably coupled to the storage unit to calculate a coordinate position of the vehicle seen from the predetermined camera, using a difference between coordinate positions of the images of the vehicle that are included in the omni-directional images; and a display unit operably coupled to the object model generating unit and the vehicle model generating unit to display the image of the object as seen from the vehicle on a display, using the calculated coordinate positions of the object and of the vehicle, the image of the object being included in common in each of the omni-directional images.