Patent ID: 7429998

Claim:
A method for monitoring a vehicle rear wherein an image of a rear of a vehicle picked up by one or more cameras mounted on the vehicle and an image of objects in a vicinity of said vehicle rear picked up by the one or more cameras are subjected to an image processing and the multiple images after the image processing are displayed in real time on a single monitor, the method comprising: providing one of a first and second display on a single monitor, wherein the first display is an image of said vehicle rear on one side of said single monitor and an image of objects in the vicinity of said vehicle rear on the other side of said single monitor, and the second display is an inverted image of the first display; and enabling changing from the first display to the second display on said single monitor, wherein the first display includes displaying said vehicle rear on an upper position of said monitor and displaying the image of objects in the vicinity of said vehicle rear on a lower position of said monitor, and wherein the second display includes displaying said vehicle rear on the lower position of said monitor and displaying the image of objects in the vicinity of said vehicle rear on the upper position of said monitor.