Vehicle periphery display device and method for vehicle periphery image

A vehicle periphery display device for indicating an image of a periphery of a vehicle, the vehicle periphery display device comprising:

• an imaging unit configured to photograph an image of a periphery of the vehicle;
• a first object detection unit configured to
• obtain image information related to at least one of a brightness and a color of the photographed image from the photographed image,
• obtain position information on the photographed image from the photographed image,
• detect an object including at least one of a road indication and an on-road object from the obtained image information according to a specific feature of the object in the photographed image, and
• associate the image information on the object with the position information on the object;
• a storing unit configured to
• beforehand store an vehicle image of the vehicle and
• store history data of the associated image information and the position information;
• a graphic unit configured to
• generate an image according to the history data,
• overlap the generated image and an image including the beforehand stored vehicle image, and
• convert the overlapped image to be viewed from a predetermined viewpoint,
• a display screen including
• a peripheral image display region configured to indicate the present image of the periphery of the vehicle obtained by the imaging unit and
• a history display region adjacent to the peripheral image display region and configured to indicate the converted image and the object detected from the image information in the converted image at a position according to the associated position information.