VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS MONITORING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that obtains a focused video even when luminance of light incident on an image sensor is high. SOLUTION: The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus includes a video acquisition unit for acquiring a video around the vehicle and a signal processing unit for processing the video captured by the video acquisition unit. The video acquisition unit includes: a first image sensor on which light of a first wavelength domain is selectively made incident, and a second image sensor on which light of a second wavelength area having a wavelength longer than the wavelength of the first wavelength domain is selectively made incident. The signal processing unit includes a luminance determining means for determining the luminance around the vehicle and a video combining means for combining a first video captured by the first image sensor with a second video captured by the second image sensor. On the basis of the results of the determination by the luminance determining means, the video combining means combines the first video with the second video while adding a predetermined weight thereto. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT