APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE AROUND VEHICLE

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for creating an image of the area around a vehicle. The apparatus for creating an image of the area around a vehicle includes: an aerial-view image creation unit that creates an aerial-view image by converting an image of an area around a vehicle, which is taken by a camera unit mounted on the vehicle, into data on a ground coordinate system projected with the camera unit as a visual point; a movement-area aerial-view image creation unit that creates a movement-area aerial-view image that is an aerial view of a movement area of the vehicle, by extracting the movement area, after a previous aerial-view image is created by the aerial-view image creation unit; a combined aerial-view image creation unit that creates a combined aerial-view image by combining a subsequent aerial-view image, which is a current image created after the previous aerial-view image is created, with the movement-area aerial-view image that is a past image; and a combined aerial-view image correction unit that creates a corrected combined aerial-view image by correcting an image to differentiate the subsequent aerial-view image that is the current image and the movement-area aerial-view image that is the past image.