In some embodiments, apparatus, systems and methods are disclosed for a driver assistance system having a vehicle data sensor configured to collect vehicle data during vehicle operation, an onboard camera and an onboard microphone located in the vehicle and configured to collect audio and video data of a driver and additional driving condition data, a network interface located in the vehicle and coupled to the vehicle data sensor, the onboard camera and the onboard microphone, the network interface configured to communicate real time data to a remote user at a remote location, and an onboard display in communication with the network interface and located in the vehicle, wherein the display is configured to display a real time video and audio feed of the remote user to the driver in the vehicle. A remote display may also be included.

An HUB system 1 is equipped with an HUB device 10 for displaying a video in front of a vehicle; a communication unit 31 for connecting a mobile device 3 with the HUD device and establishing communication; a speaker 32 for outputting sounds to a driver; a microphone 33 for picking up the voices of the driver; a sound recognition unit 34 for analyzing the picked-up voices; and an in-vehicle camera 35 for photographing the face of the driver. When there is an incoming call at the mobile device, a calling indication of the mobile device 3 is displayed on the display screen of the HUD device, an incoming call sound is outputted from the speaker, and on the basis of a result of an analysis of voices uttered by the driver performed by the sound recognition unit, the conversation operations of the mobile device are started or ended.

A motor vehicle includes an audio system which plays a song for a human user who is disposed within the vehicle. An electronic source of song information is associated with the song played by the audio system. A user interface receives a request from the user to transmit the song information to a human recipient. A processing device is communicatively coupled to each of the user interface and a mobile personal electronic device associated with the user. The processing device receives a signal from the user interface. The signal is indicative of the request from the user to transmit the song information to the human recipient. In response to receiving the signal from the user interface, the song information is transmitted from the processing device to the mobile personal electronic device associated with the user. The song information is further transmitted from the mobile personal electronic device associated with the user to an electronic device associated with the recipient.

A vehicle entertainment system may include at least one vehicle video monitor configured to be mounted in the vehicle and including a monitor display and a monitor control interface permitting an adjacent user to control video content for the monitor display. The system may further include a mobile wireless device (MWD) to be carried by a remote user within the vehicle comprising an MWD display and circuitry associated therewith configured to obtain sampled video content being displayed on the monitor display, display the sampled video content on the MWD display, and provide a remote MWD control interface to permit the remote user to remotely control the video content on the monitor display.

An electronic device is provided comprising: a user interface component configured to output stimuli and receive inputs; a connection component configured to transmit communications to other devices, one or more processors coupled to the user interface component and the connection component; and a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform actions including: securely storing, at the electronic device, payment information associated with a payment account; detecting a proximate POS terminal; in response to detecting the proximate POS terminal, determining that a mechanical input authorizing a payment transaction has not been locally received at the electronic device within a time period; in response to the determination, presenting a stimulus indicating that the mechanical input has not been locally received; detecting, subsequent to the stimulus presentation, via the user interface component, a mechanical input was locally received at the electronic device; in response to detecting that the mechanical input has been locally received at the device, enabling the payment information to be accessed; and transmitting, from the electronic device, a communication including the payment information to the POS terminal.

In embodiments of mobile device safe driving, a mobile device can display a device lock screen on an integrated display device, and transition from the device lock screen to display a driving mode lock screen. The transition to display the driving mode lock screen occurs without receiving a PIN code entered on the device lock screen. The mobile device implements a safe driving service that is implemented to activate a safe driving mode of the mobile device, and disable features of the mobile device while the safe driving mode is activated.

A vehicle computer has a vehicle display and a vehicle input device, and a mobile telephone has a mobile telephone display and a mobile telephone input device. A method for controlling the vehicle computer using the mobile telephone has the following steps: an application is run on the mobile telephone; a control command for the vehicle is entered into the application by a user using the mobile telephone input device; a software library, which can be used by multiple applications, is operated by the application; the mobile telephone is connected to the vehicle computer via a local network connection using the software library, a software interface for the software library being implemented in the vehicle computer; the control command is transmitted to the software interface; and the control command is carried out by the vehicle computer.

A hands-free apparatus enables a hands-free call by being wirelessly connected to a mobile phone that stores therein history data including incoming call history data and outgoing call history data, and phonebook data. The hands-free apparatus is configured to: perform control of connecting to the mobile phone by a transfer protocol for transferring the history data and the phonebook data; receive the history data and the phonebook data from the mobile phone by the transfer protocol when the mobile phone is present in a wireless connection area; and display an error and display a reconnection screen for receiving an instruction for reconnection by the transfer protocol with the mobile phone from a user, on a display, when connection by the transfer protocol with the mobile phone is disconnected during reception of at least one of the history data and the phonebook data.

A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly and a camera disposed at the interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly behind and viewing through an electrochromic mirror reflective element into the interior cabin of the vehicle. Supplemental sources of near infrared illumination are integrated into the mirror assembly that, when powered to emit near infrared light, illuminate at least a front seating area within the interior cabin of the vehicle. Presence of the camera is not readily apparent to an occupant sitting in the interior cabin of the vehicle. The interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly includes a processor that processes image data captured by the camera. The camera at least views a driver-side front seating area of the vehicle and, via processing at the processor of image data captured by the camera, the driver seated at the driver-side front seating area is monitored.

Apparatus and methods are described for a telematics system for a vehicle. The vehicle telematics system identifies available computing resources of a mobile device. The vehicle telematics system identifies a task of the telematics system that can be performed by the identified available computing resources of the mobile device and dispatches the identified task to the mobile device to be performed.