VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING SYSTEM

A vehicle periphery monitoring system is provided, in which by matching a behavior of a semitransparent tire image to be superimposed with an operation from a driver's viewpoint, a feeling of strangeness is reduced and an intuitive space perception is assisted and also a moving direction and a behavior of a vehicle can be easily perceived. In a side-view monitor system A1 having left and right side cameras 1, 2 imaging blind spots from a driver, an external monitor 4, an image processing controller 3 generating a monitor display image data based on a real camera image, the image processing controller 3 converts the real camera image including the blind spot into an image to be viewed from a driver's viewpoint to generate a blind spot image, performs an image composition superimposing a semitransparent vehicle image which is obtained by making a vehicle viewed from the driver's viewpoint semitransparent and a semitransparent tire image which is obtained by making a tire and displays a behavior following a handle operation viewed from the driver's viewpoint semitransparent on the blind spot image to generate a monitor display image data expressing the blind spot image through the semitransparent vehicle image and the semitransparent tire image from the driver's viewpoint.