PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE AND PERIPHERY MONITORING METHOD

The invention provides a periphery monitoring device and a periphery monitoring method, which utilize restored images in an appropriate scene. A periphery monitoring device includes: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a captured image captured by an image capturing unit provided in a vehicle so as to image an area including a road surface on periphery of the vehicle; and a restoration control unit configured to control, when the captured image includes a spotted area caused by a spot on an optical system of the image capturing unit, whether to execute restoration processing of outputting a restored image restored from the captured image so as to simulatively reproduce a state where the optical system of the image capturing unit does not have the spot by removing the spotted area,according to a positional relationship between a road surface area where the road surface is captured and the spotted area in the captured image. 本发明提供了周边监视装置以及周边监视方法，其在适当的场景利用复原图像。作为本公开的一个例子的周边监视装置具备：图像获取部，获取通过拍摄部拍摄到的拍摄图像，该