The electronic mirror device includes a display and a controller. The display includes a body case, an image display unit, and a light control filter, and is mounted on an installation position of a rear-view mirror in an interior of a vehicle for displaying an image captured by a camera mounted to the vehicle. The body case has an opening, and the image display unit is mounted to the opening of the body case. The light control filter is disposed to face a display surface of the image display unit. The light control filter can switch between at least two modes including a light reflecting mode and a light transmitting mode based on supply of electricity. The controller controls the image display unit and the light control filter.

A sensor of a brightness limiting system of a vehicle may sense light from light sources around the vehicle and provide a light measurement signal. The light measurement signal may include information about brightness levels and positions of light sources relative to a window of the vehicle. A brightness controller may monitor the light source measurement signal and perform comparisons of brightness levels from the light measurement signal with brightness thresholds. The brightness controller may determine that a brightness level of a light source exceeds a brightness threshold and may provide a brightness control signal to a brightness control layer positioned adjacent to the window of the vehicle. The brightness control layer may receive the brightness control signal and limit the brightness level of light based on the brightness threshold at a brightness control area of the brightness control layer.

A device and method of adapting light passage for a vehicle window are disclosed. The device and method operate to include sensing a light source external to the vehicle window, the light source operable to affect viewing the external environment. A portion of an adaptive light passage region of the vehicle window is defined relative to a gaze direction of a vehicle occupant, and an opacity level of the portion of the adaptive light passage region is adapted to normalize the intensity of the light source relative to the light magnitude sample data. The light source may be tracked for sustaining the opacity level of the portion of the adaptive light passage region with the gaze direction of the vehicle occupant while the light source exceeds the intensity threshold.

A display device is configured to be installed in a vehicle. The display device includes: a display on which a rear image of the vehicle is configured to be displayed; a reflectance control device configured to change a reflectance of incident light; and a control circuit configured to control the reflectance. The reflectance control device includes a first part and a second part, with the first part being positioned in a first region overlapping a display surface of the display when viewed in a normal direction, and the second part being positioned in a second region surrounding the first region when viewed in the normal direction. When the rear image of the vehicle is not displayed, the control circuit controls the reflectance control device such that a second reflectance of the second part is lower than a first reflectance of the first part.

According to one embodiment, a display system includes an external light sensor, a display panel, a viewing angle control panel including a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned, configured such that a drive voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer is controlled based on an external light intensity detected by the external light sensor, and a polarization axis rotation element disposed between the viewing angle control panel and the display panel. The drive voltage when the external light intensity is less than a threshold value is greater than the drive voltage when the external light intensity is greater or equal to than the threshold value.

The present invention relates to a vehicle control device provided in a vehicle and a control method of the vehicle. A vehicle control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a windshield provided in a vehicle, and formed to allow changing transparency, a sensing unit configured to sense information associated with the vehicle, and a processor configured to adjust the transparency of the windshield based on that information sensed through the sensing unit satisfies a preset condition.

A display control device and a display system are provided. The display control method includes: detecting if a glare is presented on the surface of the semi-translucent polarizing film layer on the emergent light side of the display device; generating a driving signal for driving the display device to display a non-black image in a glare compensation region if a glare is detected to be presented on the surface of the semi-translucent polarizing film layer; in which the glare compensation region corresponds to a glare region in the semi-translucent polarizing film layer and the glare region is an region in which a glare is presented. The display control method of the present disclosure may reduce glare intensity when a glare is created on a mirror surface such as a rearview mirror.

A display control device for a vehicle includes: a display controller that displays a determined display image including a display of a traveling state of the vehicle on a windshield of the vehicle; a visibility reducing area detector that detects a presence or an absence of a visibility reducing area on the windshield, the visibility reducing area reduces visibility of a driver; and a gaze detector that detects a gaze of the driver. When the visibility reducing area is detected, but the display of the traveling state does not overlap with the visibility reducing area, and the driver keeps the gaze on the visibility reducing area, the display controller displays, on the visibility reducing area, a traveling direction information necessary for driving the vehicle.

A vehicle display device comprises: a housing forming an opening to an interior; a first display module positioned in the interior of the housing, the display module including a first louver film that is stacked with a second louver film, wherein respective orientations of the first and second louver films are substantially perpendicular to each other; and a cover glass that covers the opening to the interior of the housing, the cover glass being free floating and having an exposed glass edge; wherein the vehicle display device has a shroud-less design and is configured for positioning within a distance from a vehicle window where the display module is susceptible to generating a reflection in the vehicle window, and wherein at least one of the first and second louver films reduce the reflection.

A projection display device includes: a light source that emits a first and a second laser lights; a scanning drive mirror that reflects the first and the second laser lights, and uses the first and the second laser lights in scanning; a light diffusion unit that includes a predetermined region that allows the first laser light to be transmitted therethrough, and diffuses the first laser light; a light detection unit that detects the second laser light that passed the predetermined region; and a control unit that executes a process to detect the second laser light, and determines a state of the predetermined region on the basis of a detection value of the light detection unit. In a case where the control unit determines that a defect occurs in the predetermined region as the state, the control unit executes a process to stop displaying the projection.