A display device for vehicles includes a display unit installed in front of a driver seat of a vehicle and having a first area and a second area. The first area displays first information used for travel control of the vehicle. The second area is provided at a position farther from the driver seat than the first area and displaying second information other than the first information. The display device further includes a control unit performing, in response to a user's operation, at least one of enlarging a display portion of information displayed on the display unit or adding new information to the display unit; and a determination unit determining, when the display portion of the first information displayed in the first area is enlarged or when new first information is added to the first area, whether or not a size of the enlarged display portion of the first information or a size of the display portion of the new first information to be added is larger than the first area. When the determination unit determines that the size of the enlarged display portion of the first information or the size of the display portion of the new first information to be added is larger than the first area, the control unit reduces the second area, enlarges the first area, and displays the first information whose display portion is enlarged or the new first information in the enlarged first area. When the display portion of the second information displayed in the second area is enlarged or when new second information is added to the second area, the determination unit determines whether or not a size of the enlarged display portion of the second information or a size of the display portion of the new second information to be added is larger than the second area. When the determination unit determines that the size of the enlarged display portion of the second information or the size of the display portion of the new second information to be added is larger than the second area, the control unit maintains the size of the second area and adjusts the size of the enlarged display portion of the second information or the size of the display portion of the new second information to be added to match the size of the second area.

A vehicle is electrically connected to one or more accessories. The vehicle includes at least one controller that may be configured to identify the accessory based on accessory identification information. The controller may also be configured to provide one or more commands to control an operation of the accessory.

A user interface apparatus for a vehicle includes a first display, a second display spaced apart from the first display, an input unit configured to receive user input through at least one of the first display or the second display, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to determine a control mode of the first display and the second display, and according to the determined control mode, control the second display based on user input received from the input unit through the first display.

A user interface apparatus configured to be installed in a vehicle, the apparatus includes a touch screen; a gesture detecting unit configured to detect a gesture of a user and convert the gesture into an electrical signal; and at least one processor configured to determine whether a criteria for switching to an autonomous driving state is satisfied in response to the gesture detected by the gesture detecting unit being applied from a driver seat of the vehicle to the touch screen, further, in response to the criteria for switching to the autonomous driving state being satisfied, the at least one processor is further configured to switch a state of the vehicle to the autonomous driving state.

An in-vehicle display system is provided with first display unit, second display unit, vehicle information acquisition unit, and CPU. When a display operation for outputting at least a portion of first content to second display unit with the first content being output to first display unit is performed, CPU selects either of first display unit and second display unit with which to associate an authority to operate the output of at least one of first display unit and second display unit according to at least one signal from among a plurality of signals indicating a type of the first content, an attribute of first display unit, an attribute of second display unit, vehicle information, and a detail of the display operation.

Methods and systems are provided. One method includes receiving, by a server, data from a vehicle over a wireless network. The data includes information usable to identify a user account. The user account being accessible by the server to identify a profile of a user, and the profile of the user includes preferences of the user and learned behavior of the user. The method further includes receiving, by the server, a geo-location of the vehicle for a time of day. Then, identifying, by the server, supplemental content that is available for sending to the vehicle based on the geo-location of the vehicle. The method includes filtering, by the server, the supplemental content based on a contextual analysis of one or more preferences of the user, the learned behavior of the user, the time of day and the geo-location of the vehicle. Said filtering eliminates sending supplemental content to the vehicle for display that is predicted to have a likelihood of not being used or preferred by the user based on said contextual analysis. The method includes sending, by the server, supplemental content to the vehicle for display to a screen or output via a speaker of the vehicle, the supplemental content that is sent is not filtered out from being sent to the vehicle.

An electric vehicle having an electric motor is provided. The electric vehicle having a receptacle slot integrated in the electric vehicle. The receptacle slot provides an electrical connection for providing power to the electric motor. A battery having an elongated form factor, where a first end of the elongated form factor includes a handle and a second end of the elongated form factor includes a connection for interfacing with the electrical connection of the receptacle slot of the vehicle, when the battery is slid into the receptacle slot for electrical engagement. The battery is configured to store and supply charge to power the electric motor of the electric vehicle and the battery is replaceable by sliding the battery out of the receptacle slot and sliding in another battery into the receptacle slot to further supply charge to power the electric motor of the electric vehicle with said another battery. The battery and said another battery each have a respective handle that is accessible for enabling hand-removal and hand-insertion of said battery and said another battery out of and into the receptacle slot. A computer on-board the electric vehicle is interfaced with the electrical connection of the receptacle slot to obtain a level of charge of the battery present in the receptacle slot. A battery level indicator of the electric vehicle provides information regarding the level of charge of the battery in the receptacle slot. A system for storing and charging batteries usable by the electric vehicle is further provided. In some examples, the batteries are additionally or alternatively recharged using green sources, such as wind or solar.

A vehicle-mounted equipment operating device includes an operation unit allowing an operator to perform an operation with a finger, an operation mode detection unit detecting an operation mode of the operator, a display device, and a control device capable of performing display control of the operation-related information on the display device and shifting a screen from a current level screen to a level screen of a level according to an output signal of the operation mode detection unit, and the control device displays a home screen icon, which is an icon representing an operation mode with respect to the operation unit for a guide to a home screen in a lower level screen and expresses both a house and an arrow by joining an upper side of a rectangle and a base side of a triangle, on the lower level screen as the operation-related information.

A method, computer program, and devices for the remote control of a transportation vehicle via a mobile device. The method includes determining a proposal for triggering a functionality of the transportation vehicle; outputting the proposal via an output device; detecting a reaction of a user of the mobile device, wherein the reaction consists of an input via the input device or of the absence of an input; and transmitting a triggering signal for the functionality from the mobile device to the transportation vehicle in response to the input being absent within a period of time or in response to the event not corresponding to a termination of the proposal.

An information processing apparatus including: a control unit to generate a display image including running images of one or more applications each containing one or more operation device images attaining predetermined functions; an output unit to display the display image generated by the control unit; and an input unit to accept an operation performed on the operation device image contained in the running image, wherein the control unit extracts the functions associated with the operation device images equal to or smaller than a predetermined maximum count and contained in the running image of the application, based on priority levels of the functions associated with the operation device images contained in one or more applications, and generates the display image including the running image containing the operation device images associated with the extracted functions.