A display apparatus including a display that has a screen; a wall portion (instrument panel) where the display is attached to an attachment portion; and a display control section that displays an information image showing information to be provided to a user (occupant) in a partial range of the screen, and displays a wall portion image having the same texture, color, or pattern as the wall portion, in a range of the screen in which the information image is not displayed.

Embodiments are directed towards providing a system that presents customized content to a user of an automobile based on what the user of the automobile is looking at. A first camera captures images of the user of the interior of the automobile, and a second camera captures images of a scene that the user is viewing. The images are analyzed to determine if the user is looking at, or not looking at, an object in the scene. If the user is looking at such an object, content associated with the object is selected and presented to the user.

A projector projects a polarized light of an image. A light guide portion guides the light toward a projection member. A polarizing plate on an optical path has a transmission axis along which transmittance of the polarized light becomes maximum. An image longitudinal direction is along a vertical direction of a vehicle. An image lateral direction is perpendicular to the image longitudinal direction. A projection polarization azimuth angle is an azimuth angle of a polarization direction of the light relative to the image lateral direction. A transmission axis azimuth angle is an azimuth angle of the transmission axis of the polarizing plate relative to the image lateral direction. The polarizing plate makes the projection polarization azimuth angle different from the transmission axis azimuth angle to tilt the polarization direction of the light of the image relative to both of the image longitudinal direction and the image lateral direction.

An input apparatus for a vehicle is provided with a plurality of sensor electrodes; and a controller is configured to determine a capacitance reference value of the input apparatus based on information about sensor values collected from a subset of sensor electrodes, which is randomly selected from the plurality of sensor electrodes.

A side head-up display system is provided. The side head-up display system has an image generator configured to emit a generated image to create a virtual image for viewing by a vehicle occupant. In some forms, a side display surface is disposed along a vehicle side of the motor vehicle, and the virtual image is viewable through the side display surface. In some versions, a controller is provided and configured to cause the generated image to be generated intermittently while the first motor vehicle is running so that the image generator is off at least part of the time while the motor vehicle is running. The controller may be configured to cause the image generator to create the generated image to show information about another vehicle outside of the motor vehicle, such as speed information and/or distance and location information.

A vehicular display device includes an image display device that is arranged in front of a driver in a vehicle and configured to display an image. The image displayed in an information display area of the image display device includes an information image displaying information according to a mode selected out of a plurality of modes, and a menu image in which a plurality of titles corresponding to the respective modes are arranged in a lateral direction of the image and for which switching is made between display and hidden-display. When an operating input to switch the modes is made while the menu image is hidden, the image display device displays the menu image, and performs animation display that changes a title displayed as active out of the titles from a title corresponding to a mode before change to a title corresponding to a mode after the change.

A display device includes a first display configured to display information, a second display configured to display information, a display controller configured to determine the content of information to be displayed on each of the first and second displays and to display the determined information on each of the first and second displays, a first receiver configured receive an operation of a user; and a second receiver configured receive an operation of a user, wherein the display controller is configured to display predetermined information across the first and second displays in a case where the first receiver receives a predetermined operation, and the display controller is configured to display the predetermined information on the second display in a case where the second receiver receives the predetermined operation.

A vehicle display device is provided including a display section that is provided at a side window glass of a vehicle, that has light-transmitting properties, and that enables display of imagery over substantially the entire side window glass, a separate section that is provided at the display section at a position corresponding to a vehicle seat, and a switching section configured to switch between a display state and a non-display state of imagery on the separate section.

Embodiments are directed towards providing a system that presents customized content to a user in an automobile based on the usage patterns of the automobile or its current occupant. Accessory data from the automobile is monitored to learn the automobile-usage patterns. The automobile-usage patterns are mapped to a plurality of content items, such as by mapping the content items to services, which are then mapped to the automobile-usage patterns. The plurality of content items are prioritized for display to the user based on the automobile-usage patterns and the frequency of those automobile-usage patterns. The prioritized content items can be presented to the user sequentially or in response to accessory data that matches an automobile-usage pattern.

A method for operating a vehicle information system of a vehicle, wherein an activation signal is received if a preparatory action of a user for putting the vehicle into operation is detected. Graphics data of an activation animation with a first display and a second display is generated as a function of the activation signal and is displayed in a display area. After the activation signal is received, an appearance of the first display is output, wherein the first display includes a first graphics object. A disappearance of the first display and an appearance of the second display are output. Also disclosed is a vehicle information system of a vehicle having a signal-generating unit by which a preparatory action of a user for putting the vehicle into operation is detected, and an activation signal is generated as a function of the detected preparatory action.