US Patent 10131277 Surroundings monitoring apparatus

A surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an acquisition portion acquiring captured image data from an imaging portion that captures an image of an area including a road surface in a moving direction of a vehicle and in a vicinity of the vehicle, and an output control portion outputting the captured image data acquired by the acquisition portion to a display device by switching a screen displayed at the display device to the captured image data based on one of a change of a pitch angle of the vehicle and a change of a gradient of the road surface on which the vehicle is driven.