Patent Document ID: 20100201818
Application ID: 12658559
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: an imaging device that is configured to capture a periphery image, wherein the periphery image shows a periphery of the vehicle and an object-in-periphery, wherein the object-in-periphery is located in the periphery of the vehicle, wherein the object-in-periphery includes at least one of an road-surface mark and an on-road object; a storage medium that is configured to store history data comprising at least one of the periphery image and information on the object-in-periphery, wherein the information on the object-in-periphery is extracted from the periphery image or acquired from a sensor equipped in the vehicle, wherein a vehicle image representative of the vehicle is pre-stored in the storage medium; a display screen that has a real-time displaying part for displaying thereon the periphery image that shows a present situation of the periphery of the vehicle, with distortion of the periphery image being uncorrected, and a history displaying part for displaying thereon the vehicle image and a history image, the history image being produced based on the history data, wherein the history displaying part adjoins the real-time displaying part; and a drawing section that is configured to superimposingly draw the vehicle image and the history image each taken from a predetermined view point on the history displaying part of the display screen, such that: the vehicle image and the history image are provided with the distortion that the periphery image has; and the object-in-periphery shown in the history image is continuously connected to that shown in the periphery image.