To allow a driver of an own vehicle to correctly select an optimum drive operation by letting the driver recognize the positional relationship between the own vehicle and a peripheral vehicle between start and completion of merging of the own vehicle.
A route prediction/calculation part 14 of a controller 1 calculates predicted routes of the own vehicle and the peripheral vehicle in a predetermined elapsed time based on information from an own vehicle recognition part 11, a peripheral vehicle recognition part 12 and a road situation recognition part 13. A display image generation part 15 respectively calculates a predicted arrival position of the own vehicle and that of the peripheral vehicle on a predetermined time interval basis based on information from the route prediction/calculation part 14, and generates a display image formed by relating the predicted arrival position of the own vehicle and that of the peripheral vehicle at the same time to each other to display the image on a display device 9.
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KUSAYANAGI YOSHINORI
Iwa Saki Kokuni
Kawamata Sumio
Masakazu Ito
Shunichi Takahashi
Toshio Takamatsu