SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE AREA AROUND A VEHICLE

Disclosed is a system (1) for monitoring the area around a vehicle (10), which is able to visually inform the passenger in the vehicle (10) of not only the presence but also the kind of an object in images around the vehicle displayed in an HUD (7), for example, in response to the difference in the display mode of the presence of the object. The driver of the vehicle (10) can recognize which of a human or a four-footed animal the object belongs to, according to either the difference in the designs of a first mark (M1) and a second mark (M2) displayed in the HUD (7), or the difference in the designs of a first frame (F1) and a second frame (F2).