Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering an occupant of the vehicle to a destination autonomously as well as providing information about the vehicle and the vehicle's environment for display to the occupant.

An example method includes detecting a potential threat to a vehicle that is external to the vehicle, determining a severity level of the potential threat and a location of the potential threat relative to the vehicle, and displaying an indication of the potential threat on an electronic display in a particular portion of the electronic display corresponding to the location and with a particular display attribute corresponding to the severity level. The particular portion is one of a plurality of different portions of the electronic display each corresponding to different threat locations, and the particular display attribute is one of a plurality of different display attributes corresponding to different severity levels. A corresponding system that detects and displays notifications of potential threats is also disclosed.

The disclosure is related to a method and a system for assisting a driver of a road vehicle. A data processing unit receives data representing at least a relative position of the road vehicle, outputs, through a display device and/or an interior lighting device, a visual alert when the data processing unit determines that the data fulfill a first condition, and outputs, through a sound-emitting device, an audible alert when the data processing unit determines that the data fulfill a second condition after fulfilling the first condition.

A vehicle display apparatus includes: a meter display which displays a vehicle traveling information; a locator, a surrounding monitoring sensor, and an in-vehicle communication device which acquire vehicle position information and vehicle surrounding information; and a HCU. The HCU displays, based on the vehicle position information and the vehicle surrounding information, a front area image including the vehicle on the meter display when an autonomous driving function is not demonstrated, and displays the front area image and a rear area image including a following vehicle in a continuous and additional manner on the meter display when the autonomous driving function is demonstrated.

A method for assisting a vision of a driver includes: receiving a signal indicating that weather information is emergency weather information from a navigation device according to setting by a vehicle driver, and turning on a vision assisting device included in the vehicle in response to the signal; obtaining an image of an infrared thermal camera of the vision assisting device, which photographs a front of the vehicle when the vehicle travels, and obtaining an image of a camera of the vision assisting device, which photographs the front of the vehicle when the vehicle travels; controlling an image processor of the vision assisting device to determine whether a matching rate between image data of the infrared thermal camera and image data of the camera is equal to or less than a first threshold; and, when the matching rate is equal to or less than the first threshold, using distances between the vehicle and respective objects located at the front, a rear, and sides of the traveling vehicle, speeds of the respective objects, which are detected by a radar sensor of the vision assisting device, and the images of the infrared thermal camera photographing the front of the vehicle to generate a surrounding state image of the vehicle, which includes the distances and the speeds.

Disclosed is a driving environment information display method including acquiring environment information, selecting a first seed image corresponding to a curvature of a road on which driving is performed based on the acquired environment information, from among a plurality of lane surface seed images having different curvatures, disposing the selected first seed image at a display origin corresponding to a vehicle origin, primarily distorting the first seed image in a direction toward a target lane surface that becomes a display target based on a host vehicle in response to a first lateral distance of an adjacent lane division line located in the direction toward the target lane surface, secondarily distorting the image in the direction toward the target lane surface in response to a half of the lane width of a driving lane of the host vehicle, and outputting the secondarily distorted image through a display unit.

Provided is a driving support device including a storage device and a hardware processor, the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device to: acquire, from a mobile object, information on existence of a specific situation on a planned travel route, which is set as a route to a destination set by an occupant of the mobile object; plan a coaching item, including notification of warning information relating to traveling of the mobile object and suggestion relating to traveling of the mobile object, based at least on the information; and control a notification device so as to execute the notification and suggestion based on the planed coaching item.

An information provision device for a vehicle allows information to be provided to a user appropriately, and includes an onboard device having a first control means that operates a display unit, and an external device having a second control means that outputs information from outside the vehicle to the first control means. The display unit includes a first region in which vehicle-status information is displayed and a second region in which the information from outside the vehicle is displayed. The first control means can determine priorities for the vehicle-status information and the information from outside the vehicle. The first control means operates the display unit such that either the first region or the second region, which contains high-priority information, is larger than the other. If prescribed conditions occur, the first control means operates the display unit such that the region containing low-priority information is larger than the other.

A vehicle collision warning prevention method includes the steps of: (a) extracting a forward video of a vehicle and video recognition information from a video recognition module mounted in a vehicle, and detecting a size change rate of a forward object included in the video recognition information at each frame of the forward video; (b) calculating an average OFCR of a predetermined frame section; (c) determining whether a value obtained by subtracting the average OFCR from a current OFCR is less than a predetermined threshold value; (d) determining that a brake operation signal is generated when it is determined that the value is less than the threshold value; (e) determining whether a collision warning signal is generated within a predetermined time after the step (d); and (f) preventing an output of the collision warning signal when the collision warning signal is generated at the step (e).

A heads up display system with a variable focal plane includes a projection device to generate light representative of at least one virtual graphic, an imaging matrix to project the light representative of the at least one virtual graphic on at least one image plane, a display device to display the at least one virtual graphic on the at least one image plane, and a translation device to dynamically change a position of the imaging matrix relative to the display device based, at least in part, on a predetermined operational parameter to dynamically vary a focal distance between the display device and the at least one image plane.