A method for adjusting an outside mirror and inside rearview mirror comprising receiving pre-stored information, identifying the driver physical dimensions and preset at least one vehicle setting to the correctly engineered position for a the identified driver physical dimensions to avoid dangerous conditions from wrongly set device where the device is a rear view mirror and the dangerous condition is not seeing vehicles in adjacent lane when trying to change lanes and adapting the position of the rear view mirror as new information become available.

An image display device 12 includes a camera 20 for imaging a rear of a vehicle 10, a reference position detection section 80 for detecting a reference position indicating a relative position of eyes 104 of an operator 100 relative to a display part 50, and an image control section 82 for extracting a part of an imaged image of the camera 20 thereby to display it as a circumferential image on the display part 50 and changing an extraction range of the imaged image in accordance with the reference position. The image control section 82 increases or decreases a movement amount of the extraction range relative to a change amount of the reference position in comparison with the case of a normal mirror 120.

A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of cameras mounted at the vehicle and having respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. The cameras include a CMOS image sensor and a serial data interface configured for transmission of captured image data to an image processing system via a serial data bus linking the respective camera to the image processing system, which processes the transmitted captured image data. The vehicular vision system transmits data to the cameras via the respective serial data bus linking the respective camera to the image processing system. The vehicular vision system activates at least one camera of the plurality of cameras (i) responsive to a gear position of the vehicle, (ii) based on situational analysis information derived from the image processing system, or (iii) based on a driving condition.

An image monitoring apparatus, includes: an abnormality detecting part configured to detect an abnormal output from an imaging device based on frame data input to a display driving device that displays the frame data output from the imaging device on a display device; and a signal output part configured to output an abnormality detection signal when the abnormal output is detected.

A vehicle camera includes an image sensor and a variable lens. The variable lens includes a liquid crystal layer that includes liquid crystal molecules having an arrangement that depends on a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer. The variable lens is configured to, based on the arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer, alter light that is introduced into the image sensor.

A determination is made as to whether a driver or a front-seat passenger of the motor vehicle would like to operate a display device. If it is detected that only the driver would like to operate the display device, the display device is put in a first operating mode in which a graphic user interface is displayed exclusively in a driver-side display region of the display device. If it is detected that only the front-seat passenger of the motor vehicle would like to operate the display device, the display device is put in a second operating mode in which the graphic user interface is displayed exclusively in a front-seat-passenger-side display region of the display device. If it is detected that the driver and the front-seat passenger of the motor vehicle both would like to operate the display device, the display device is put in a third operating mode in which the graphic user interface is displayed in the driver-side display region and at least part of the graphic user interface is additionally also displayed in the front-seat-passenger-side display region.

A display control device is disposed in a vehicle in which a camera photographing a first captured image indicating an image on a rear right side of the vehicle and a display displaying the first captured image are mounted. The display control device includes an image acquiring unit acquiring the first captured image from the camera and a display control unit controlling the first captured image displayed on the display. The display control unit causes the display to display one of a narrow angle image indicating a part of the first captured image and a wide angle image indicating an image in a range wider than the narrow angle image in the first captured image and to display the first captured image such that a size of a first region in displaying the wide angle image is larger than a size of the first region displaying the narrow angle image.

Disclosed is a display apparatus which considers the speed and traveling mode of a vehicle. The display apparatus includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain at least one of internal and external information about a vehicle, a control unit configured to process the information obtained by the information obtaining unit into a single image or a plurality of images by using a single image generator and control the image to be changed according to a traveling mode of the vehicle, and a display unit configured to display the image or the plurality of images.

An image signal processing apparatus includes a first control unit starting activation in response to an activation request, a decoding unit, and a second control unit. Each of the decoding unit and the second control unit starts activation when the first control unit completes the activation, and shifts from an off-state to a normal operating state after the activation is completed. In the normal operating state, the decoding unit receives an image signal from outside and outputs the image signal after executing a decoding process to the image signal. In the normal operating state, the second control unit processes an image included in the image signal outputted from the decoding unit, and displays the processed image. When the first control unit completes the activation and the decoding unit completes the activation, the first control unit instructs the decoding unit to perform a setting for executing the decoding process.

A vehicle user interface apparatus for a vehicle including a light emitting unit configured to emit light; a touch sensor configured to sense a touch; a processor configured to control the light emitting unit to emit the light in response to an event, activate the touch sensor when the light is emitted, and provide a signal to control a vehicle device corresponding to a touch input received through the activated touch sensor; and a cover covering the light emitting unit, the touch sensor, and the processor, the cover configured to transmit the light into a passenger compartment with a specific shape when the light is emitted.