Switchable tailgate imaging and sensing systems and methods are disclosed herein. A vehicle may include a tailgate comprising a closed position and an open position, a first camera and a second camera configured to obtain images in a field of view, and a first proximity sensor and a second proximity configured to determine a proximity of the vehicle to objects in a sensing area. When the tailgate is in the closed position, the first camera and the first proximity sensor are used. When the tailgate is in the open position, the second camera and the second proximity sensor are used.

A vehicle display device includes a first display unit disposed in front of and above a driver's seat and including a display screen configured to be deployed from an interior member into the vehicle cabin and be withdrawn from the vehicle cabin into an inside of the interior member, a drive unit configured to drive the display screen, and a control unit configured to control the first display unit and the drive unit. The control unit includes a driving status acquisition unit configured to acquire a driving status of a vehicle, a drive control unit configured to change a deployment amount of the display screen based on the acquired driving status, and a display control unit configured to cause the display screen to display a rear seat image captured by an in-vehicle camera for a rear seat to fit with the deployment amount of the display screen.

A vehicular collision avoidance system includes a forward-viewing camera viewing through the windshield at least forward of the equipped vehicle, a rearward-sensing radar sensor sensing at least rearward of the equipped vehicle, and an electronic control unit. The vehicular collision avoidance system detects vehicles present forward and/or rearward of the equipped vehicle. Responsive to data processing of radar data captured by the rearward-sensing radar sensor, the vehicular collision avoidance system detects another vehicle approaching the equipped vehicle from the rear, determines distance between the equipped vehicle and the other vehicle, and determines speed difference between the equipped vehicle and the other vehicle. Based at least in part on the determined distance between the equipped vehicle and the other vehicle and the determined speed difference between the equipped vehicle and the other vehicle, the vehicular collision avoidance system controls the equipped vehicle to mitigate impact by the other vehicle.

A vehicle includes a first sensor for acquiring image data of a rear side, a second sensor for acquiring gaze data of a user, a display for outputting a screen of the image data, an input device for setting a sensitivity to a movement of a user gaze, and a controller for determining reference vector data based on the gaze data at a point in time at which the gaze data starts to be acquired or the gaze data that is preset, for outputting a control signal to output a screen of the image data corresponding to the reference vector data, for acquiring result data including relative position data and relative velocity data of gaze movement data with respect to the reference vector data, and for controlling a signal to output a screen of the image data.

A vehicular display system includes an electronic control unit (ECU), a plurality of cameras including a driver-side rear corner camera and a passenger-side rear corner camera disposed at respective driver-side and passenger-side rear corner regions of the vehicle. The ECU includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by any of the plurality of cameras and generate video images. A video mirror display screen is disposed at an interior rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle and is operable to display video images provided by the ECU. Responsive to a triggering event, the ECU, via processing of image data captured by at least one of the driver-side and passenger-side rear corner cameras, generates cross-traffic view video images and provides the cross-traffic view video images to the video mirror display screen. The cross-traffic view video images are displayed in a split-screen format at the video mirror display screen.

To appropriately determine the display order of a plurality of images captured by at least one image capturing apparatus installed on a movable body, based on an imaging direction of the image capturing apparatus, an apparatus identifies the imaging direction of the image capturing apparatus in capturing each of the plurality of images, and determines the display order of the plurality of images based on a result of the identification.

A camera system is installed on the front end of a vehicle, either on the left front, the right front, or both sides. The camera is linked via wired or wireless connection to an onboard computer and a navigation display that is located within the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The driver reviews a visual description on the display of any oncoming traffic in the form of motor vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, animals and the like on the navigation display via a single screen, split screen or alternating screens. The camera system can include a speed sensor that detects when the vehicle reaches a threshold speed to activate or de-activate the camera. Alternatively, the computer can activate the system when a turn signal is activated, and de-activate the system when the turn signal is no longer activated. This camera system can be retrofitted into older vehicles.

Disclosed is a surround view monitoring system for a vehicle, including a plurality of cameras included in the vehicle and configured to capture images of a region around the vehicle, an image synthesizer configured to form a synthesized image for monitoring the region around the vehicle by synthesizing the images captured by the plurality of cameras, a driving recognizer configured to recognize driving-state information of the vehicle, and a display controller configured to control a display device to selectively display a portion or an entirety of the synthesized image formed by the image synthesizer based on the driving-state information of the vehicle, recognized by the driving recognizer.

Provided is an image pickup system including: a front camera sensor; and a camera sensor for image generation having a second horizontal angle of view. The latter camera sensor includes: an image sensor having an image pickup surface; and an optical system having a lens. The image sensor has: a specific region in which light from an object positioned within a diagonal lateral azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface; and a residual region in which light from an object positioned within a residual azimuth angle range is to be imaged onto the image pickup surface, the residual azimuth angle range being obtained by excluding the diagonal lateral azimuth angle range from the second horizontal angle of view. The lens has a curved surface formed so that a horizontal pixel density in the specific region becomes larger than that in the residual region.

The display control apparatus for presenting information on a display unit presenting a virtual image in front of a moving body through a transparent member includes an information acquiring unit configured to acquire information about an obstacle around the moving body, a display image generation unit configured to generate, based on the information about the obstacle acquired by the information acquiring unit, data of an indicator image which points in a direction of the obstacle in the virtual image and which moves in the direction of the obstacle to approach the obstacle, and an output unit configured to output the indicator image generated by the display image generation unit to the display unit.