APPARATUS FOR MONITORING SURROUNDINGS OF VEHICLE

摘要

An apparatus for monitoring the surroundings of a vehicle is provided with a second display unit that visually represents information on the presence of monitored objects by the display or lack of display of marks. When at least one monitored object is detected in a picked-up image, the marks are displayed in different forms in accordance with the hazard the monitored object poses to the vehicle.

主权项

1. A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus for detecting a monitored target in the periphery of a vehicle based on a captured image signal generated by an image capturing device mounted on the vehicle, comprising:
a first display unit that displays a captured image represented by the captured image signal; a second display unit that visualizes information concerning whether or not the monitored target exists in a plurality of sub-regions, which make up the captured image displayed on the first display unit, based on whether or not marks associated respectively with the sub-regions are displayed; and an attention degree evaluator that evaluates a degree of attention of the monitored target for the vehicle, if at least one instance of the monitored target is detected in the captured image, wherein the second display unit displays the marks in different display modes depending on the degree of attention evaluated by the attention degree evaluator.