Patent ID: 7317813

Claim:
A vehicle vicinity image processing apparatus which is applied to a vehicle having image pick-up means for picking up an image of a vehicle vicinity and display means for displaying an image, and which processes the image picked up by said image pick-up means and displays the processed image on said display means the vehicle vicinity image-processing apparatus comprising: bird's eye view image creation means for creating a bird's eye view image on the basis of the image picked up by said image pick-up means; vehicle movement amount detecting means for detecting an amount of vehicle movement on the basis of vehicle signals obtained from the vehicle; bird's-eye view image moving means for moving a first bird's-eye view image created by said bird's-eye image creation means in correspondence with the amount of vehicle movement and thereby creating a moved bird's-eye view image; composite bird's-eye view image creation means for creating a composite bird's-eye view image to be displayed on said display means by combining a second bird's-eye view image which is picked up and created later than the first bird's-eye view image with the moved bird's-eye view image, wherein said composite bird's-eye view image is an image in which a part of the moved bird's-eye view image that does not overlap with the second bird's-eye view image is added to a display area of the second bird's-eye view image.