A virtual image display can display a display object being a virtual image in a virtual image position determined by a virtual image direction which is a direction of the virtual image and a virtual image distance which is a distance to the virtual image. A display control device includes a relative position acquisition part for obtaining a relative position of an attention object and the vehicle and a controller for controlling a display of the virtual image display. When the controller displays the visual guidance object which is a display object to guide a visual line of a driver to the attention object, the controller changes the virtual image direction and the virtual image distance of the visual guidance object in accordance with time so that the visual guidance object seems to move toward the position of the attention object as viewed from the driver.

A method for illuminating a passenger compartment of a vehicle with lighting devices which each contain one or more diffuse and/or indirect light sources. The intensity and color of the light emitted by the light sources being set automatically as a function of specific operating parameters which are influenced by a vehicle occupant. The lighting devices which are respectively spatially assigned to an area of the passenger compartment of the vehicle in which there is a vehicle component with an operating parameter which can be set separately by the driver and which can act on a general operating mode selected by the driver, are actuated in such a way that their intensity and color indicate to the driver whether the current setting of the separately settable operating parameter has a positive or negative effect on the general operating mode selected by the driver.

A device having a sensor, a control unit, and a display designed for a vehicle which is designed as an at least partially self-driving vehicle. The sensor detects objects in the surroundings of the vehicle. The device displays the objects, together with the vehicle, on the display in animated form.

The action schedule item creation ECU creates action schedule items demanded of an ego vehicle capable of switching between autonomous driving and manual driving. The HUD and the meter display are provided inside a cabin of the ego vehicle. The display control ECU displays the action schedule items created by the action schedule item creation ECU on the HUD and the meter display, and emphasizes display of action schedule items to be performed by manual driving compared to display of action schedule items to be performed by autonomous driving.

The disclosure provides a display control device and a display control method thereof. The display control device controls a display device to project an information image representing a target recognition vehicle in a first mode on a screen member. The screen member is provided between the target recognition vehicle and a user of the vehicle. When a traveling direction of the target recognition vehicle intersects with a traveling direction of the vehicle, the display control device controls the display device to project the information image in a second mode on the screen member. The information image in the second mode includes an image simulating a vehicle headlight beam of the target recognition vehicle.

A character attribute determination section 1 determines a attribute of a character on the basis of a character attribute database 2. A blur intensity decision section 5 acquires a blur intensity for each character attribute on the basis of legibility control knowledge 3, and decides the blur intensity for the target character corresponding to the character attribute determined by the character attribute determination section 1. A blurring process execution section 6 performs a blurring process to the character with the blur intensity decided by the blur intensity decision section 5.

A vehicle information display device including: a subject detecting sensor, that detects a first object positioned in a surrounding area of the vehicle and a second object different from the object; a display portion, that has a display area that displays an object mark corresponded to the object to emphatically display the object detected by the subject detecting sensor, and displays the second object mark so that when a number of the second objects that are in the vicinity of the detected first object and are detected by the subject detecting sensor is large, the emphasizing degree of the vertical component of the second object mark is suppressed in comparison with the emphasizing degree of the vertical component of the first object mark when the number of the second objects is small or no second object is detected.

Proper display is performed in consideration of a characteristic that a vehicle head-up display device 1 is mounted in a vehicle. The vehicle head-up display device 1 for displaying a virtual image displays plural virtual images which are different in focal distance.

A method for operating a vehicle information system of a vehicle, wherein an activation signal is received if a preparatory action of a user for putting the vehicle into operation is detected. Graphics data of an activation animation with a first display and a second display is generated as a function of the activation signal and is displayed in a display area. After the activation signal is received, an appearance of the first display is output, wherein the first display includes a first graphics object. A disappearance of the first display and an appearance of the second display are output. Also disclosed is a vehicle information system of a vehicle having a signal-generating unit by which a preparatory action of a user for putting the vehicle into operation is detected, and an activation signal is generated as a function of the detected preparatory action.

Disclosed is a technique of notification control for a vehicle configured to execute automated driving. In the technique, a predetermined operation of the vehicle to be executed in an intersection is identified. A notification related to the predetermined operation is made during automated driving of the vehicle based on the identifying the predetermined operation. The notification prompts a driver of the vehicle to assist in passing the intersection.