| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle surroundings monitoring device that can accurately discriminate and detect an object with low luminance present in the surrounding of a vehicle by a color.SOLUTION: The vehicle surroundings monitoring device composed of a camera 2 and an image controller 3 comprises: a near infrared light level estimation unit 32 that calculates an index value Cindicative of a level of received near infrared light on the basis of a degree of difference between gradation values of a color pixel of an original image 41 and a transparent pixel thereof; and a color image generation unit 33 that generates a color image by allocating correction color gradation values in which color gradation values allocated to each transparent pixel and color pixel of the original image 41 are corrected in accordance with the index value Cto each pixel of the original image as gradation values of pixels at corresponding arrangement positions of a color image 43. |
