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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus for watching around a vehicle comprises an image pick-up unit mounted on the exterior of a vehicle and a display unit provided within the vehicle and used for displaying left and right images of the surrounding of the vehicle thus picked up by the image pick-up unit together with a mask image for dividing the surrounding image into the left and right images. In this case, two kinds of display colors including black and blew may be provided to the mask image . Further a photodiode for detecting lightness outside the vehicle is provided. In a case where the luminous intensity outside the vehicle is decided to be high by a luminous intensity signal detected by the photodiode , a dark mask image is displayed on the display unit , whereas when the luminous intensity outside the vehicle is decided to be low thereby, a light blew mask image is displayed thereon.