A dial plate is provided with a mark layer having translucency, the mark layer including numbers of linear grooves formed on a surface of the mark layer, and a reflective layer that is arranged on a back face side of the mark layer, and reflects light incident from the mark layer side. The reflective layer includes a light transmission area that allows the light emitted from a light source arranged on the back face side to transmit therethrough to a front face side, and displays a display design by the light transmitting through the light transmission area when the light source is turned on. In the reflective layer, at least the light transmission area is composed of pearl ink.

A head-up display device for a vehicle includes a housing including a guide plate forming first and second surfaces thereof, the housing mounted on a dashboard of a vehicle, a display disposed in the housing for generating an image, a mirror disposed opposite from the display for reflecting the image provided by the display, a combiner device including a combiner for providing the image reflected from the mirror to a driver, and for moving vertically in opposed first and second directions relative to the housing, a shutter device including a shutter disposed on an upper portion of the housing for opening and closing the combiner in a sliding manner, and an operation device disposed in the housing for engaging a sliding movement of the shutter with a movement of the combiner device.

Provided with an input system including: a detection device that contains a detection sensor which detects a user operation and is arranged apart from a display device, and an output circuit which outputs detected information indicating the user operation detected by the detection sensor; an input device which inputs the detected information; and a control device that contains a control means implemented by a programmed processor which, when the user operation is judged to indicate an operation performed at a prescribed position on the basis of the detected information input by the input device, determines the display position of an indicator on a screen of the display device as a specific position.

The invention relates to a control system (2) for controlling a main monitor (10) of a motor vehicle, said control system (2), configured so as to be installed on a central console (12), comprising a display screen and a touchscreen. Said control system (2) has a first mode of operation in which said display screen is in an inactive state and the touchscreen is in a basic configuration, and a second mode of operation in which said display screen is in an active state and the touchscreen is in an advanced configuration; the control system furthermore comprises a control module configured so as to put the control system into said first mode of operation when the vehicle is in a driven driving mode or into said second mode of operation when the vehicle is in an autonomous driving mode.

Provided herein is a consolidated vehicle information system or information cluster. The information cluster can include a vehicle based data processing system to generate a plurality of predictive content items corresponding to a user of a vehicle. The information cluster can include a predictive interface having a plurality of displays to display predictive content items. The vehicle based data processing system can arrange the plurality of predictive content items within the plurality of displays based on relevance scores assigned to the predictive content items. The vehicle based data processing system can receive a first input corresponding to a first predictive content item and identify a first application corresponding to the first predictive content item. The vehicle based data processing system can generate updated relevance scores and modify the arrangement of the predictive content items within the displays based on the updated second relevance scores.

Provided herein is a vehicle instrument cluster consolidation system. The consolidated instrument cluster includes a vehicle based data processing system communicatively coupled with a display module. The display module can include multiple windows to display a plurality of menu items. The vehicle based data processing system communicatively can couple with the display module, input devices, and sliders to interact with the menu items provided within the multiple windows. The vehicle based data processing system can receive a motion input indicating a direction to relocate the plurality of menu items within the multiple windows. The vehicle based data processing system to, responsive to the motion input, relocate a first menu item from the center window to a second offset window and relocate a second menu item from a first offset window to the center window.

Poor visibility due to abnormal display caused by occurrence of failure of HUD is reduced using AR-HUD which includes a vehicle information acquiring unit, a controller, and a video display apparatus. The vehicle information acquiring unit acquires various types of vehicle information that can be detected by a vehicle. The controller controls display of a video in a display region visually recognized through a windshield from a driver's seat of a vehicle based on vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquiring unit. The video display apparatus generates video based on an instruction from the controller. The controller acquires apparatus information which is used when determining apparatus fault, determines whether the apparatus fault is present or not based on the acquired apparatus information, and performs a display content changing process to change content of the video projected onto the windshield when determined that the apparatus fault is present.

Systems and methods for outputting to a vehicle dashboard screen from multiple operating systems are described in this disclosure. The systems and methods use a computing device to host different types of applications in the operating systems. A first of the operating systems runs driving-critical applications, and a second of the operating systems can run non-driving-critical applications. The first operating system has direct access to display hardware on the computing device, and can include security features to prevent it from being compromised. Outputs generated by the non-driving-critical applications in the second operating system are sent to the first operating system, where the outputs are combined with outputs from the driving-critical applications, to create a series of composite images for display on the dashboard screen. Either the first operating system or the second operating system can control the whole dashboard screen based on predetermined configurations.

Systems and methods for selecting a control mode to launch an application in a vehicle are described. For one embodiment, a system for selecting control modes for launching applications in a vehicle with a dashboard screen can include a computing device embedded in the vehicle, the computing device connected to the dashboard screen and a control display; and an operating system installed on the computing device, the operating system running a multi-display controller and one or more applications. The multi-display controller is to receive a request from the control display for launching an application, determine a control mode used to launch the application based on an integration level indicator of the application, and launch the application in the determined control mode. A metabar and a global widget can be created on top of the dashboard screen. The metabar is permanently displayed across the dashboard screen, and can contain environmental and driving-related information. The global widget appears contextually in response to a state change of a system component in the vehicle.

A vehicle camera system comprising: a camera arranged to capture image data from a field of view surrounding a host vehicle; a display arranged to display the image data; and a processor arranged to: determine the presence of obstructions in the field of view; and control the display to display the image data in dependence on the detection of obstructions in the field of view.