The present disclosure provides an autonomous vehicle and associated interface system that includes multiple vehicle interface computing devices that provide redundant vehicle commands. As one example, an autonomous vehicle interface system can include a first vehicle interface computing device located within the autonomous vehicle and physically coupled to the autonomous vehicle. The first vehicle interface computing device can provide a first plurality of selectable vehicle commands to a human passenger of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle interface system can further include a second vehicle interface computing device that provides a second plurality of selectable vehicle commands to the human passenger. For example, the second vehicle interface computing device can be the passenger's own device (e.g., smartphone). The second plurality of selectable vehicle commands can include at least some of the same vehicle commands as the first plurality of selectable vehicle commands.

A vehicular display apparatus is provided. The vehicular display apparatus includes a driving device installed in a housing, a display module configured to move to an inner portion or an outer portion of the housing, based on a mechanical operation of the driving device, and a controller unit configured to control the mechanical operation of the driving device. The driving device includes a gear configured to move the display module to the inner portion or the outer portion of the housing and a light emitting sensor and a light receiving sensor facing each other with the gear therebetween. The light receiving sensor senses an optical signal of the light emitting sensor passing through a region between gear teeth of the gear, and the controller unit counts the number of gear teeth of the gear passing through a region between the light emitting sensor and the light receiving sensor on a basis of a sensing result of the light receiving sensor and controls movement of the display module, based on the counted number of gear teeth.

A system and method for controlling an output of content in a vehicle are provided. In the system and the method for controlling an output of content in a vehicle according to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a content source may be adjusted and outputted to correspond to a main display, and the main contents of the content source may be converted and outputted into additional contents so as to correspond to a sub display. Accordingly, the content source may be provided so that nearby users can be more comfortable and can easily check key contents in consideration of the characteristics of a display unit disposed in a first vehicle, and the effectiveness of providing the content may become higher, thereby the purpose of providing the content may be achieved more easily.

A vehicle includes a transparent display having a variable transmittance disposed between a rear seat and a front seat. The transparent display plays predetermined video content. The predetermined video content has at least a first phase, a second phase that follows the first phase, a third phase that follows the second phase, and a fourth phase that follows the third phase. At a beginning of the first phase, the variable transmittance of the transparent display is a first transmittance, and at an end of the first phase, the variable transmittance of the transparent display is a second transmittance that is smaller than the first transmittance.

A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight module configured to switch between first light having a maximum luminance in a first direction and second light having a maximum luminance in a second direction different from the first direction and emit the first light and the second light from a main surface, a liquid crystal display panel, and a control device. The control device receives a first image and generates a first offset image based on the first image, the first offset image being an image obtained by reversing a color of the first image and having a luminance adjusted, controls the liquid crystal display panel such that a first display image including the first image and a second display image including the first offset image are alternately displayed, and controls the backlight module so that the first light is emitted when the first display image is displayed and the second light is emitted when the second display image is displayed. A luminance of the first offset image is substantially equal to a luminance in the second direction when the liquid crystal display panel displays the first display image.

A display method includes obtaining image information, where the image information includes an eye of a first user, determining an eye position and a line-of-sight direction of the first user based on the image information, and adjusting a display manner of a first area in a display area based on the eye position and the line-of-sight direction of the first user. The display area is a display area of a head-up display or a display area of an augmented reality head-up display, and the first area includes privacy information of a second user.

A device for displaying contents to a passenger of a road vehicle; the device for displaying contents comprising: a support element configured to be mounted at a dashboard of the road vehicle; at least one screen mechanically connected to the support element and configured to be visible to the passenger while the vehicle is being driven; a first portion configured to project contents while the vehicle is being driven; a second portion, adjacent to the first portion and configured to project a video stream of at least part of the environment external to the road vehicle.

A user interface for controlling a function of a vehicle is provided. The user interface comprises a manual input device for generating a user input signal in response to manual actuation by a user and one or more proximity sensors for being arranged in a vicinity of the manual input device, wherein each proximity sensor is configured to generate a proximity sensor signal in response to presence of a hand in a vicinity of the proximity sensor. Furthermore, the user interface comprises a processing circuitry configured to control the function of the vehicle based on the user input signal and the one or more proximity sensor signals.

A content output device includes a display controller for controlling output of a content to a display device provided for each of seats of a moving object, and an identification unit for identifying each of occupants seated in the seats of the moving object, and the display controller is adapted to: in accordance with a content output instruction from one occupant seated in one seat, connect to an account of the one occupant, the account being related to content viewing, and output a content to be provided to the account to one display device that is the display device for the one seat; and stop the output of the content to the display device for the one seat while maintaining the connection to the account when the one occupant leaves the one seat.

In a physical state sharable seat, a sensor is configured to acquire a measurement value specific to a physical state of an occupant seated on the seat body; and a controller connected to the sensor and thereby allowed to acquire the measurement value from the sensor is configured to be capable of communicating with other equipment. The controller includes: an evaluation unit configured to compute an evaluation value on the physical state, based on the measurement value; an evaluation value presentation unit configured to present the evaluation value at a terminal to be used by the occupant; a shared data acquisition unit configured to acquire an other-occupant evaluation value that is an evaluation value on a physical state of another person, acquired either by the evaluation unit or from another physical state sharable seat; and a shared data presentation unit configured to present the other-occupant evaluation value at the terminal.