A control unit for displaying a traffic situation on a screen of an ego vehicle is designed to display a first traffic participant symbol for a first traffic participant in a first sub-region of the screen and a second traffic participant symbol for a second traffic participant in a second sub-region of the screen. The control unit is additionally designed to determine that the first traffic participant symbol and the second traffic participant symbol are approaching each other in a specified manner on the basis of a change in the position of the second traffic participant relative to the first traffic participant. In response thereto, the control unit is further designed to at least partly hide the first and/or the second traffic participant symbol.

The present disclosure relates to interactive projection systems. In one implementation, an interactive projection system for a vehicle window may include a film having a plurality of sensors embedded therein, the plurality of sensors configured to detect local pressure disturbance on the film; a projector configured to project a user interface onto the film; and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to perform operations, including receiving a detection of a local pressure disturbance from at least one of the plurality of sensors, based on a location of the detected local pressure disturbance, determining a change in the user interface, and transmitting a command to the projector to modify a projected user interface according to the determined change.

Disclosed herein are a display apparatus for vehicles and a method of controlling the same. The display apparatus for vehicles includes a projection glass having a variable transmittance, a variable glass driving unit configured to adjust the transmittance of the projection glass, a projector configured to display an image on the projection glass, an image input unit configured to receive an image to be projected onto the projection glass, a mode selection unit configured to select an operation mode of the projection glass, and a control unit configured, according to the selection of the mode selection unit, to drive the variable glass driving unit to adjust the transmittance of the projection glass and to project the image, input from the image input unit, onto the projection glass through the projector.

Disclosed herein is a control method for controlling a vehicle using an agent module generating a dialogue which constructs a dialogue-type response to a received speaking of an occupant. The control method includes: a receiving the speaking of the occupant through a voice input unit; updating the dialogue as a procedure of providing a search result in response to a search request through the speaking of the occupant is performed multiple times; and displaying in real time, on a display, a procedure of updating the dialogue, wherein the updating of the dialogue comprises: updating keywords, inferred from the speaking of the occupant, on the basis of a subsequently input speaking of the occupant; and providing the search result on the basis of the updated keywords, and wherein, in the displaying on the display, the keywords inferred from the speaking of the occupant through the agent module are displayed with different display attributes and thereby visually distinguishable from each other.

An apparatus and a method for controlling the output of driver information to a driver of a vehicle, with the objective of entertaining the driver and/or the passengers of the vehicle and/or increasing the driver attentiveness of the driver. A database of points of interest or objects of general interest, a database of topographic information, a device for determining the whereabouts of the vehicle, and an evaluation device to which these information items are delivered, are provided. The evaluation device ascertains, from the current whereabouts of the vehicle and from the topographic information, which points of interest or objects of general interest are present in the driver's field of view, and outputs via an output device the driver information regarding the point of interest or the object of general interest which has been ascertained by the evaluation device to be located in the driver's field of view.

Virtual humans exhibit behaviors associated with inputs and outputs of an autonomous control system for medical monitoring of patients. To foster the awareness and trust, the virtual humans exhibit situational awareness via apparent (e.g., rendered) behaviors based on inputs such as physiological vital signs. The virtual humans also exhibit situational control via apparent behaviors associated with outputs such as direct control of devices, functions of control, actions based on high-level goals, and the optional use of virtual versions of conventional physical controls. A dynamic virtual human who continually exhibits awareness of the system state and relevant contextual circumstances, along with the ability to directly control the system, is used to reduce negative feelings associated with the system such as uncertainty, concern, stress, or anxiety on the part of real human patients.

A device and a method for safety-optimized control of infotainment contents in a vehicle are provided. The device includes an ascertainment unit which is configured to register a request to activate nondriving infotainment contents in the vehicle, and to ascertain a basic condition for activating nondriving infotainment contents in the vehicle. The device also includes a control unit which is configured, if a request is registered to activate nondriving infotainment contents in the vehicle and if a basic condition is ascertained by the ascertainment unit, to automatically activate a safety function in the vehicle, wherein the safety function in the vehicle is specifiable for activating nondriving infotainment contents for an operator of the vehicle; and after activating the safety function in the vehicle, to output nondriving infotainment contents for the operator of the vehicle in accordance with the registered request.

An indoor display apparatus of a vehicle may include a vehicle state inputter configured to receive a vehicle state, a front detector configured to detect an object ahead of a vehicle, a flip-dot display installed at a top of a cockpit module, and being configured to implement a pixel by rotating a flip disk, an illuminator installed around the flip-dot display, and being configured to illuminate the surface of the flip-dot display, and a controller configured to receive an operation mode of the vehicle from the vehicle state inputter, to receive a distance to the object and a direction of the object from the front detector, and to operate the flip-dot display and the illuminator.

A display device for a vehicle includes: a first image control section that displays a first entire image in a certain entire display region; a second image control section that displays a second entire image that is changed from the first entire image in the certain entire display region; and an intermediate image control section that displays a single intermediate entire image indicating an intermediate stage of a change between the first entire image and the second entire image in the certain entire display region. The second image control section displays a final display state in which a certain mark is displayed in a certain portion within the certain display region as the second entire image. The intermediate image control section displays the intermediate entire image having an afterimage of the certain mark being extended in a track direction on a track of the certain mark moving to the certain portion.

A method for operating a driver information system in an ego vehicle is provided, in which a course of the road lying in front of the ego vehicle in the driving direction is detected including a radius of curvature of a curve, and a driver information display is generated and output. The driver information display comprises a graphic lane that represents the detected course of the road. The graphic lane object comprises the detected radius of curvature of the curve in a perspective depiction.