A non-contact operating apparatus, for a vehicle, includes a generating unit, a projecting device, a detecting device, and a setting unit. The generating unit is configured to generate and update an image containing an image object. The image object is operable by an occupant present within a vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The projecting device is configured to project the image in a predetermined display region within the vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The detecting device is configured to detect a riding state of the occupant who is present in the vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The setting unit is configured to instruct the projecting device or the generating unit to project the image at a position at which the image object is operable by the occupant who is in the riding state detected by the detecting device.

A non-contact operating apparatus, for a vehicle, includes a generating unit, a projecting device, a detecting device, a stimulation output device, a determining unit, and a stimulation response output unit. The generating unit is configured to generate and update image containing an image object. The projecting device is configured to project the image in a predetermined display region. The detecting device is configured to detect an operation site of an occupant positioned in a vicinity of the predetermined display region. The stimulation output device is configured to output and update a tactile stimulation to the operation site. The determining unit is configured to determine whether the operation site performs a non-contact operation against the image object. The stimulation response output unit is configured to cause the stimulation output device to output the tactile stimulation to the operation site on the basis of a determination result.

A vehicle interior component providing a user interface for an occupant is disclosed. The component may comprise a base; a cover comprising a surface; an intermediate layer comprising a foam material; and a sensor to detect an electrical signal in response to input at the user interface, contact at the surface of the cover, or compression of the foam material. The foam material may comprise electrical properties, conductivity, resistance, compression-responsive electrical properties, or variation in voltage. The foam material may comprise an additive, an additive material, a conductive material, a conductive additive, conductive particles, carbon particles, carbon black particles, carbon dust, carbon particles in a substrate, or carbon particles interspersed with a non-conductive substrate. The foam material may comprise foam with conductive particles, carbon foam, carbon additive foam, polyurethane foam, or polyurethane with carbon particles. The cover may comprise a non-conductive material, leather, vinyl, textile, or fabric.

An operating system includes a display device having at least two planar display regions, which are arranged one behind the other in a viewing direction of an operator and extend transversely to the viewing direction. The operating system can be used to control a plurality of apparatuses of a vehicle.

A user interface and a method for changing from a first screen view to a second screen view of a user interface. The method includes detecting an input in an approximation region of an input unit, displaying a message at an edge of the first screen view relating to the possibility of changing over to the second screen view, recognizing a predefined gesture of a user, and changing from the first screen view to the second screen view.

A system for detecting command gestures made by a finger of a driver of a motor vehicle, the system including an interface pad, a light source that emits in the infrared toward the pad, an imaging sensor, for capturing images steered by the pad away from the driver, with a base frame and a movable plate, an optical zone of interest seen by the imaging sensor being defined at the interface between the base frame and the plate, the pad including an elastic deformable seal interposed between the base frame and the movable plate, the seal being absorbent at the optical wavelengths of interest, the pad including a reflective strip behind the seal from the point of view of the camera, so that the seal forms a zone that appears dim to the camera, the size of the dim zone depending on the pressure exerted on the plate.

A gesture interface system of a vehicle is provided. The gesture interface system includes a posture detector configured to detect a posture of a user, a gesture detector configured to detect a gesture of the user, an actuator configured to adjust a monitoring region of the gesture detector, and a controller configured to control the actuator based on the posture of the user, the posture being detected by the posture detector.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting a user gesture or eye tracking for selecting of an object, and responding to the selection, are disclosed. A gesture or eye tracker may be placed near a user, along with a camera positioned to share at least a portion of a field of view with the user. The user may look or gesture to an object within the portion of the field of view, indicating its selection. The object may be recognized, and the user presented with one or more actions to take in response to the selected object.

A vehicle display device includes: an emitting part that is mounted in a vehicle and emits a display light; a housing that accommodates the emitting part in an inner accommodation space; and a last mirror that reflects the display light emitted from the emitting part toward a windshield provided in a front of the vehicle in a vehicle front-back direction and causes the windshield to reflect the display light toward a presumed eye point. The windshield has a rising angle on a side of the eye point relative to a horizontal direction of equal to or greater than 60 and equal to or less than 90. The last mirror is provided outside the accommodation space as a whole, and is located between the windshield and the eye point EP in the vehicle front-back direction and opposed to the windshield.

A system, consisting of a vehicle having an infotainment system, a mobile data processing device and a motion sensing device, wherein a first communication interface is set up to transmit control commands I.sub.S from the motion sensing device to the mobile data processing device, the mobile data processing device is set up to translate the control commands I.sub.S into instructions I.sub.A to the infotainment system, and a second communication interface is set up to transmit the instructions I.sub.A from the mobile data processing device to the infotainment system.