Device for monitoring area around vehicle

Abstract

Disclosed is a device for monitoring the area around a vehicle wherein, when a monitor output image is acquired by synthesizing bird's-eye-view images based on the captured images of a plurality of cameras, the skewness of a three-dimensional object that appears in the synthesized images can be alleviated. The device for monitoring the area around the vehicle is used together with the plurality of cameras (11) that capture images of the area around the vehicle. An image processing unit (2) acquires the output image by acquiring data indicating a plurality of the images captured by the plurality of cameras (11), and synthesizing a plurality of the bird's-eye-view images generated on the basis of the acquired data. The image processing unit (2) wherein a bird's-eye-view image creating unit (22) synthesizes pixels of different bird's-eye-view images in overlapping areas of the different bird's-eye-view images corresponding to different cameras (11) on the basis of the ratio determined in accordance with the angle at which the different cameras (11) look down the points corresponding to the pixels.

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