APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERIPHERAL IMAGE OF VEHICLE

The present invention relates to an apparatus for creating an image of the area around a vehicle to obtain an image behind the vehicle and display the image on a monitor, and a method thereof The apparatus for creating an image of an area around a vehicle according to the present invention includes: a camera unit that is mounted on a vehicle and creates an image by photographing a peripheral area; an aerial-view image creation unit that creates an aerial-view image by converting the taken image into data on a ground coordinate system projected with the camera unit as a visual point; a movement information extraction unit that extracts information about movement of the vehicle on the basis of wheel pulses for a left wheel and a right wheel of the vehicle, the wheel pulses created by a wheel pulse sensor in the vehicle; a movement-area aerial-view image creation unit that creates a movement-area aerial-view image, which is an aerial view of the area to which the vehicle has moved, by matching the previous aerial-view image created by the aerial-view image creation unit to the movement information; and a combined aerial-view image creation unit that combines an aerial-view image, which is created after the previous aerial-view image is created, with the movement-area aerial-view image.