Driving support device, driving support method, and storage medium storing driving support program

A driving support method of supporting driving performed by a driver of a vehicle, comprising:

• judging a target object that is a real object existing in a vicinity of the vehicle and should be paid attention to by the driver, based on vicinity information acquired by a vicinity detector that captures an image of or detects a real object existing in the vicinity of the vehicle;
• generating a visual attraction stimulation image that appears to move from a position farther than the target object towards a position where the target object exists;
• setting a direction of a movement vector of the visual attraction stimulation image in regard to a time of determining the position of starting the movement of the visual attraction stimulation image at a direction heading towards a position of the vehicle;
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• causing a display device that displays an image in superimposition on the real object to display the visual attraction stimulation image.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a driving support program for supporting driving performed by a driver of a vehicle, the driving support program causing a computer to execute processing comprising:

• judging a target object that is a real object existing in a vicinity of the vehicle and should be paid attention to by the driver, based on vicinity information acquired by a vicinity detector that captures an image of or detects a real object existing in the vicinity of the vehicle;
• generating a visual attraction stimulation image that appears to move from a position farther than the target object towards a position where the target object exists;
• setting a direction of a movement vector of the visual attraction stimulation image in regard to a time of determining the position of starting the movement of the visual attraction stimulation image at a direction heading towards a position of the vehicle;
• and
• causing a display device that displays an image in superimposition on the real object to display the visual attraction stimulation image.