A method controls a plurality of assigned electrically controlled transmission switch elements of a first set in a vehicle sunroof.

A switch module includes a master switch unit and a slave switch unit. The master switch unit includes a master substrate, a determination unit mounted on the master substrate and configured to determine an ON/OFF state of a switch portion connected to the determination unit, a master-side switch portion mounted on the master substrate and connected to the determination unit, and at least one master-side connector mounted on the master substrate and connected to the determination unit. The slave switch unit includes a slave substrate, a slave-side switch portion mounted on the slave substrate, and a first slave-side connector mounted on the slave substrate and connected to the slave-side switch portion. The master-side connector is connected to the first slave-side connector.

Methods and systems are provided. One method includes receiving, at a server, a geo-location of a vehicle. The method further includes receiving from time to time, at the server, vehicle condition. The method includes identifying a user account for the vehicle. The user account includes preferences associated with a profile of a user. The method also includes sending data to the vehicle. The data is for presentation on a display screen or output via an audio system of the vehicle. The data is selected based on a context of the geo-location and the vehicle condition or the preferences associated with the profile of the user. Interaction modes can be used to define what information is displayed and when information is provided to the display screen.

The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for displaying composited user interfaces and/or customized user interfaces, such as based on contextual information and/or detecting the presence of electronic devices.

A device for controlling ambient lighting of a vehicle includes a light element in a vehicle interior, a touch-sensitive display unit, and a control unit. The light element emits light in one of a plurality of colors that can be generated by the light element. The display unit displays a plurality of colors of a predefined color spectrum simultaneously in a color scale, and detects a location of a user input made by touching the display unit. Via the detected location, the user input is assigned to an associated color displayed in the color scale and information about the color assigned to the user input is transmitted to the control unit, which controls the light element for emitting light in the color assigned to the user input. The light element and display unit have the same color space, such that the color associated with the user input, displayed on the display unit are the same.

A method for displaying at least one additional item of display content on a display panel which is arranged in an interior of a vehicle, in which at least one sensor is used, using which a spatial corridor in the interior of the vehicle is optically monitored. The spatial corridor is delimited by two virtual boundary surfaces. At least one spatial virtual reference surface is defined in the spatial corridor between the virtual boundary surfaces, to which the at least one additional item of display content is assigned. The at least one sensor is used to detect whether a hand of a user is located in the corridor.

Data characterizing a relative arrangement of vehicle occupants with respect to one another are continuously transmitted to display devices worn on the heads of the vehicle occupants. Virtual environments are displayed as a function of these data.

A method and apparatus for automatically arranging seats of an autonomous vehicle enable seats to be remotely changed between a standard arrangement mode and a final target arrangement mode. The apparatus includes a manipulation device configured to generate a signal corresponding to a target arrangement mode of seats through manipulation by a passenger, seat motors respectively provided in the seats so as to control positions and postures of the seats, seat controllers for controlling operation of the seat motors, and a vehicle controller configured to transmit a signal from the manipulation device to the seat controllers, transmit an abnormal signal indicating jamming of the seats to the manipulation device or control the seat controllers provided in the vehicle. As a result, it is possible to easily change the seats to a desired arrangement mode in an autonomous vehicle without interference with peripheral components during movement of the seats.

A travel control method for a vehicle for executing autonomous travel control includes, prior to executing the autonomous travel control, presenting a driver with travel control information as to whether or not to accept execution of the autonomous travel control and detecting, in response to a presentation of the travel control information, an acceptance input made by the driver indicating that the driver accepts the execution of the autonomous travel control. The travel control method also includes: setting an input form of a present acceptance input by the driver to an input form different from an input form of a previous acceptance input.

An operation device includes an operating portion including plural adjacent operating regions, plural detection portions that are arranged on the operating portion so as to correspond to the plurality of operating regions to detect contact and each output a detection value, and a determination unit that calculates a calculated value from a sum of the obtained detection values and the largest detection value among the obtained detection values, compares the calculated value to a predetermined threshold value, and thereby decides whether or not to display an image on an electrically connected display device, the image being associated with the detection portion that output the largest detection value.