BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW VIDEO GENERATION DEVICE, BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW VIDEO GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

A bird's-eye view video generation device includes a video data acquiring unit 42 configured to acquire video data of surroundings video of a vehicle captured by cameras; a bird's-eye view video generator 44 configured to generate a bird's-eye view video that displays a predetermined display area around the vehicle by performing a viewpoint conversion processing and synthesizing processing on the video data of the surroundings videos acquired by the video data acquiring unit 42 with a vehicle icon representing the vehicle; a reference object detector 45 configured to detect at least one reference object around the vehicle; an orientation specifying unit 46 configured to specify a relative orientation of the reference object detected by the reference object detector 45 with respect to the vehicle; a superimposing processor 48 configured to generate a superimposed bird's-eye view video by superimposing information representing the relative orientation of the reference object with respect to the vehicle on the bird's-eye view video generated by the bird's-eye view video generator 44 based on the vehicle icon as a reference; and a display controller 49 configured to cause a display panel 31 to display the superimposed bird's-eye view video generated by the superimposing processor 48.