Provided is an electronic device comprising a sensor configured to detect a gesture without touching an own device and a controller configured to determine a hand of a user used for operation according to a driver's seat position and determine, according to the hand of the user used for operation, a direction of the gesture based on an output from the sensor.

A visual field display device for a motor vehicle includes an electrically controllable, planar pixel arrangement, particularly at least one flat screen monitor, for producing a projection light beam having a display content, a reflection-suppressing deflection arrangement arranged on the planar pixel arrangement, including one or more flat reflection surfaces, extending along the planar pixel arrangement at a predetermined, acute angle thereto and parallel to one another, for projecting the generated projection light beam onto a partially transparent, reflective projection pane, particularly a windshield of the motor vehicle. As a result, a virtual display image, shown in a visual field of a user, is generated behind it. The one or the plurality of reflection surfaces are designed on the rear sides thereof in a light-absorbing manner in order to suppress interfering reflections.

A vehicle control system includes a vehicle, an information terminal apparatus that can provide, on a display unit, a plurality of contents which provide training on an operation method of the vehicle, and a server that can communicate with the vehicle and the information terminal apparatus. The information terminal apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display a first content that provides training on an operation method including a method to start an operation of a specific function of the vehicle and a second content that provides, to a user of the vehicle who has been trained by the first content and is registered in the server, training on an operation method corresponding to a phenomenon that can occur while the specific function is provided.

A dynamic touch user interface system includes a touch-input interface, one or more visual indicators, and a plurality of sensors. The touch-input interface has a reference surface that covers one or more touch elements. The touch elements define an active area that allows user communication with a computer through touch. The active area is relocatable along the reference surface in response to detected circumstances. The visual indicators visually identify a location of the active area. The sensors detect the circumstances affecting a relocation of the active area.

Embodiments generally relate to a system and a machine-readable medium for providing an entrainment experience to a user. The system comprising an experience system in communication with one or more human sensory inputs and an entraining rhythm generation unit. The experience system configured to receive entraining rhythm information from the entraining rhythm generation unit, determine the entrainment experience based on the entraining rhythm information, and provide the entrainment experience to the user via the one or more human sensory inputs.

In various embodiments, an alert personalization application personalizes in-vehicle alerts. The alert personalization application estimates an increase in a negative emotion associated with an occupant of a vehicle based on at least one characteristic of the occupant. Subsequently, the alert personalization application determines that the increase is associated with a negative reaction to an in-vehicle alert that has a first alert characteristic. In response, the alert personalization application determines that the first alert characteristic should be replaced with a second alert characteristic. The alert personalization causes another in-vehicle alert to be generated that has the second alert characteristic instead of the first alert characteristic. Advantageously, personalizing alert characteristics that influence how and/or when in-vehicle alerts are generated can increase the effectiveness of in-vehicle alerts and can improve driving safety.

A display panel has a first panel side and a second panel side, both capable of displaying graphic display object(s). The display panel has a pixel layer, control circuitry and a sensor unit which identify the presence of at least one person at a predefined threshold distance from the display device and whether the at least one person is on the first panel side or the second panel side. The control circuitry is adapted to enable the displaying of the graphic display object in accordance with a predefined display alignment in one of a first orientation and a second orientation based on a physical environment condition.

A display device and an electronic control unit are included in a vehicle. A graphical user interface of the display device is configured to display a graphic display object. The electronic control unit is configured to receive an orientation signal of a vehicle element. The orientation signal includes information about at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle element being in at least one of a first element position and a first element orientation. The electronic control unit is configured to adjust a position of the graphical user interface as a function of, or based on, the orientation signal, such that a position of the graphical user interface relative to the vehicle element is within a predefined tolerance.

A display device for a vehicle includes a display panel, a control circuitry, and a supporting arrangement. The display panel displays a graphic display object and the control circuitry enables the displaying of the graphic display object, such that the information represented by the graphic display object is displayed based on a predefined physical environment condition. The supporting arrangement supports the display panel which is adjustable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the graphic display object is visually accessible to a user inside the vehicle and in the second position, the graphic display object is visually accessible to at least one person outside the vehicle.

The invention relates to a method for depicting at least one virtual element in a display area of at least one display element of a vehicle. The method for depicting a virtual element allows the depth perception of virtual elements in the display area of a display apparatus to be improved. The method may be realized in that the virtual element is constructed of at least one first virtual subelement and one second virtual subelement, wherein the first virtual subelement is arranged in perspective in the display area in front of the second subelement.