A visual system (1) for a vehicle (7) having a capturing unit (2) for capturing a field of view (8) and a calculation unit (3), which is adapted to generate image data to be displayed based on the captured image data, and to supply the same to an image display unit (4), wherein the image data to be displayed include the field of view (8) captured by the capturing unit (2), the image display unit (4) is adapted to display the image data to be displayed, so that they are visible for the driver of the vehicle (7), and the calculation unit (3) is adapted to superimpose at least one trajectory (10, 10′) of a future track/driving curve of the vehicle (7) on the image data to be displayed on the image display unit (4), if a steering angle of the vehicle (7) has a predetermined amount.

An electronic mirror device includes: a display that is mounted on an installation position of a rear-view mirror in an interior of a vehicle; and a controller that controls the display. The display includes: a body case having an opening on a side of a driver seat of the vehicle; an image display unit that is mounted to the body case and displays the camera image; and a half mirror disposed at a side of the driver seat of the image display unit. The controller identifies an object moving in a direction toward the vehicle in the camera image, and displays a camera image in which a size of the identified object in a display image on the image display unit is magnified or reduced to a size of the object reflected in the half mirror viewed from the driver seat, on the image display unit.

Disclosed are a method, a device and/or a system of utilizing a camera array system to detect a load status of a semi-trailer truck. A sensor array is affixed to a surface of a trailer of the semi-trailer truck to automatically determine whether a cargo area of the semi-trailer truck is occupied. A set of cameras of the sensor array have each camera embedded in individual recesses of the sensor array. The cargo area is illuminated using at least one light source of the sensor array. A memory and a processor associated with the sensor array are configured to store one baseline image of the cargo area of the trailer in an empty state. The processor is configured to detect a triggering event. The processor determines a cargo status based upon a difference between the current image and the baseline image, and sends the cargo status to a dispatcher.

A motor vehicle includes a left side view camera attached to the left lateral side of the body and having a field of view in a rearward direction. A right side view camera is attached to the right lateral side of the body and has a field of view in a rearward direction. There is a right back up camera and a left back up camera. An optics module receives resulting video signals and produces light fields such that the light fields are reflected off of windows of the motor vehicle and are then visible to a driver of the motor vehicle as virtual images.

Provision of a sense of distance by motion parallax is easily realized.

A display image is obtained by superimposing an image showing a vehicle on a captured image obtained by capturing an image on a rear side from the vehicle. For example, the image showing the vehicle is a computer graphics image. For example, a change is made in a superimposed positional relationship between the captured image and the image showing the vehicle in accordance with motion of a viewpoint of a driver. Since the display image is not only made from the captured image obtained by capturing an image on a rear side from the vehicle, but the display image is obtained by superimposing the image showing the vehicle on the captured image, it is possible to easily provide a sense of distance by motion parallax.

The electronic mirror device performs display by switching between an image captured by a rear camera which is mounted on a rear part of a vehicle and captures an image of an area behind the vehicle, and an image captured by a mirror camera which is mounted near a position where a rearview mirror is mounted and captures an image of an area behind the vehicle. This electronic mirror device includes an image display unit that performs display by switching between an image captured by the rear camera and an image captured by the mirror camera, and a controller that controls the image display unit. The controller switches the display on the image display unit between the image captured by the rear camera and the image captured by the mirror camera, when an image of an object of interest captured by the rear camera coincides with an image of the object of interest captured by the mirror camera.

A display device includes a display panel, and a front panel overlapping with the display panel. The front panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate located on an opposite side of the first substrate with respect to the display panel, the front panel has an active region capable of being switched between a display state in which an image is displayed and a reflection state in which a reflected image is provided, and a frame region around the active region, and a metal layer is arranged in the frame region of the second substrate.

This disclosure details vehicle static body structure mounted side view mirror assemblies. The exemplary side view mirror assemblies may include features for supporting vehicle off-roading, such as a pivoting and telescoping mirror section, a wind wing, lighting features, snorkel features, and/or accessory mounts, etc. The exemplary side view mirror assemblies may also include features for supporting improved vehicle security, such as mirror mounted radar sensors capable of establishing a security protection zone about the vehicle.

A method for operating a vehicle camera system including receiving a first image from at least one video camera, identifying a first object in the first image, determining a distance between a vehicle component and the identified object, modifying the first image by incorporating a human machine interface (HMI) within the first image, wherein the human machine interface includes a display configured to communicate the distance between the object and the vehicle component, and displaying the modified image to a vehicle operator.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, techniques are provided for automatic turn signal deactivation in a vehicle with a trailer. The vehicle includes a camera monitoring system that provides video images for display devices that replace traditional side view mirrors. In some embodiments, video information is obtained from the camera monitoring system and is used to determine an angle of the trailer. Upon activation of a turn signal indicator, the video information is used to detect departure of the trailer angle from a centered region and the subsequent return of the trailer angle to the centered region in order to automatically deactivate the turn signal indicator.