The present invention provides a vehicle vicinity image-processing
apparatus and a recording medium capable of deducing a scene having left
the field of vision of a camera mounted on the rear of a vehicle and
drawing an image of the area behind the vehicle which includes this
deduced part. An image-processing unit 5 first coordinate-converts a
picked-up image to create a bird's-eye view image. Two chronologically
consecutive bird's-eye view images are created as the bird's-eye view
image, and a matching area of the two images is extracted. On the basis
of this matching area, a moved area which has left the present field of
vision of the camera 1 is extracted. An image of the matching area and
the moved area is then drawn on a monitor 3. By this means, it is
possible to draw an image including a scene which has left the present
field of vision of the camera 1.