An automated driving system comprising an electronic control unit and a driver stimulation device suitable for stimulating the driver by being activated according to at least one stimulation pattern.

In this automated driving system, the electronic control unit is configured to cause said driver stimulation device to be activated according to at least one periodical stimulation pattern, when the automated driving system is activated.

Such stimulation helps the driver to maintain his or her level of situation awareness at an appropriate level at all times.

The invention relates to a method for displaying a notification for a user in which first image data associated with the notification is displayed on a display unit in a normal display mode. The method also includes displaying second image data associated with the notification on the display unit in a safety display mode as soon as a predetermined fault condition is satisfied in the normal display mode. The predetermined fault condition being satisfied is checked by comparing a current display of the first image data by the display unit in the normal display mode, with respect to a presence of image faults, with a reference display of the first image data by the display unit in the normal display mode. The current display and the reference display are subdivided into regions and/or pixels for the comparison, said regions and/or pixels being associated with classes as background, foreground, image edge and/or irrelevant. Color value intervals and/or color value thresholds are set for each class based on an RGB scheme. A position within or outside of the color value intervals and/or color thresholds is established for each region and/or for each pixel and for each class, and an image fault is identified in response to a position being established outside of the color value intervals and/or color value thresholds, where regions and/or pixels that are classified as irrelevant are excluded from said comparing.

A driving assistance apparatus installed in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a left-rearward area and a right-rearward area of the vehicle, a display unit configured to display an image capturing result from the image capturing unit as an image, and a control unit configured to control the driving of the display unit, wherein the control unit causes an icon for communicating predetermined information to a driver to be displayed over the image capturing result, at a position of a corner part corresponding to an upper part on a vehicle body side of the image displayed by the display unit.

A vehicle dashboard instrument display for displaying vehicle operating information to a driver includes a lens system adjacent the instruments and interposed between the driver and the instruments. The lens system includes a variable focus lens operable for, responsive to input from a lens controller, adjusting to a focal length suitable for countering the visual impairment of the driver to render the instruments more easily readable by the driver.

An information processing and display device may include a display device, an input unit that accepts user operations, and a processing unit that performs processing related to a plurality of functions according to a program stored in a storage unit. The processing unit sets a plurality of divided regions on the display and can change demarcation of these set divided regions according to a user operation. When executing a process of generating display data related to the plurality of functions by dividing the information display related to the plurality of functions into a plurality of divided regions, the processing unit prioritizes execution of a process related to a function for which information is displayed in a divided region set to be the largest among the plurality of functions over processes related to other functions.

An image capture device is mounted in a vehicle. The image capture device includes: an image capture unit; and a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for each region of the image capture unit each having a plurality of pixels, or for each pixel, based upon at least one of a state exterior to the vehicle and a state of the vehicle.

There is provided a hybrid vehicle that enables user to be more appropriately notified of a control effect by performing a drive support control. A hybrid vehicle includes an engine; a motor; a battery; map information; and a control device programmed to set a drive route from a current location to a destination, to create a drive support plan that assigns one of drive modes including a CD mode and a CS mode to each of drive sections of the drive route, and to perform drive support control that causes the hybrid vehicle to be driven along the drive support plan. The control device accumulates control effect obtained by performing the drive support control and notifies the control effect when the hybrid vehicle reaches the destination. The control device deletes the control effect when the predetermined deletion condition is satisfied.

An image control apparatus installed in a movable body, includes a controller to generate data of an image to be displayed so as to appear to be superimposed on a predetermined position including at least a road surface in a direction along which the movable body moves, as viewed from an occupant of the movable body. The controller generates a pattern to be displayed at the predetermined position, upon detecting that a change in a route is included in a planned path that is generated in advance, and that a change position of the route is further away than the predetermined position as viewed from the occupant, and the pattern is displayed in such a manner that an actual position of the change position of the route appears to be positioned on an extended line of at least part of information forming the pattern, as viewed from the occupant.

An image display system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image display unit, an acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The image display unit is capable of displaying an image and moves in association with a movement of a user. The acquisition unit acquires movement information regarding a movement of the image display unit. The display control unit causes the image display unit to execute suppression image display for suppressing an influence of the movement of the image display unit with respect to an external space on the basis of the acquired movement information.