Surrounding recognition assisting device for vehicle

A surrounding recognition assisting device for a vehicle comprising:

• an image receiving portion for receiving a captured footage, which is configured with a plurality of frames captured by an image capturing device for capturing a view around the vehicle;
• a target image area-detecting portion for detecting an image area including a picture element belonging to a predetermined color space corresponding to a display color of a direction indicator within a target frame out of the plurality of frames, which configure the captured footage, as a target image area;
• a residual image generating portion for applying a predetermined weighting to an image within the target image area in order to generate a residual image;
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• a display image generating portion for superimposing the residual image on at least one of frames following the target frame so that the residual image is superimposed on the frame at a corresponding coordinate to generate a display image to be displayed on a display device.