CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD USING CAPTURED IMAGE OF EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF VEHICLE

A control apparatus for a vehicle including an image capturing device periodically acquires an image of an external environment of the vehicle from the image capturing device and recognizes a target object in the external environment of the vehicle based on the acquired image. The apparatus controls setting of a predetermined region for the acquired image and performs distortion reduction processing for reducing distortion of the image for the set predetermined region. In a case where a particular target object that is recognized is included in the predetermined region, the apparatus changes the predetermined region such that a region other than the particular target object included in the predetermined region increases.