A camera for taking a state behind a vehicle is installed in a position laterally shifted from the rear center of the vehicle. An image processing unit generates a rear image from a camera image by shifting merely a rectangular area of the camera image so ...

To monitor both the surrounding of a vehicle and a place distant therefrom, there is mounted on the vehicle a twin-camera (23) composed of cameras (23L, 23R) forming a pair. To properly set the postures of the cameras (23L, 23R), their tilts, pans and twis...

The camera (12) is held on a support (14) able to travel out to the side or rear limits of the vehicle.

A screen (20) displays a reference mark (24) for aligning a vehicle's longitudinal axis. A processor (14) picks up information for positioning a camera (10) regarding this axis and is so designed that relative movement of the camera's picture and the refer...