Monitoring System and Vehicle Surrounding Monitoring System

A monitoring system to which camera images shot by a plurality of cameras installed to a moving body are input, comprising:

• a parameter storage section for storing a plurality of image synthesis parameters each expressing correspondence between camera images and a synthetic image and a plurality of detection parameters each defining specification of moving object detection;
• a parameter selection section for selecting each one from the plurality of image synthesis parameters and the plurality of detection parameters which are stored in the parameter storage section;
• an image synthesis section for generating a synthetic image showing a state of a monitoring region by synthesizing the camera images according to the image synthesis parameter selected by the parameter selection section and for producing a synthetic image output;
• and
• a moving object detection section that receives and uses said synthetic image output to detect a moving object in the synthetic image based on the detection parameter selected by the parameter selection section,
• wherein the parameter selection section performs parameter selection according to a state of the moving body and taking account of a detection result by the moving object detection section, and
• when the moving object region is detected by the moving object detection section, the parameter selection section modifies the selected image synthesis parameter so that only one of fields of camera images are referenced for a part corresponding to the moving object region and outputs it.

A monitoring system to which camera images shot by a plurality of cameras are input, comprising:

• an image synthesis section for generating a synthetic image showing a state of a monitoring region by synthesizing the camera images;
• a moving object detection section for detecting, in the synthetic image, a moving object;
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• a display section for displaying a graphic used to highlight the moving object.