A driving assistance device includes a target information acquisition device, a vehicle state information acquisition device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether a specific condition which is set so as to be established when vehicle control is needed in accordance with a result of comparison between an index value and a predetermined threshold is established, perform the vehicle control for avoiding contact of the host vehicle with an obstacle or abnormal proximity of the host vehicle to the obstacle when the specific condition is determined to be established, and change at least one of the predetermined threshold and the index value based on a lateral distance so that the specific condition has more of a tendency to be established as the lateral distance decreases.

An in-vehicle alert apparatus includes an object information acquiring unit, a vehicle status information acquiring unit, a display unit, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit determines whether or not an alert target exists outside a field of view of a driver, and displays, as an alert screen, a single display screen when one alert target is selected, a whole display screen when two alert targets are selected and all of the two alert targets are determined to exist within the field of view of the driver, and an individual display screen when two alert targets are selected and an alert target having the highest alert degree is determined to exist outside the field of view of the driver.

A presentation controller in a control device captures an image of a driver using an onboard camera of an occupant state detection section, and acquires a state of the driver that is detected in the captured image and represents the posture of the driver, and the position of part of the body of the driver. The presentation controller then uses road-vehicle inter-communication to acquire, as an event, information from a detector of an event detection section indicating a danger in front of the vehicle, and detects a presentation direction for the event. The presentation controller then controls a device of a presentation section so as to move a marker that is assistance information along a direction from the vehicle toward the driver, as information perceivable by the occupant. The presentation controller then notifies the event to the ears of the driver.

A virtual image display can display a display object being a virtual image in a virtual image position determined by a virtual image direction which is a direction of the virtual image and a virtual image distance which is a distance to the virtual image. A display control device includes a relative position acquisition part for obtaining a relative position of an attention object and the vehicle and a controller for controlling a display of the virtual image display. When the controller displays the visual guidance object which is a display object to guide a visual line of a driver to the attention object, the controller changes the virtual image direction and the virtual image distance of the visual guidance object in accordance with time so that the visual guidance object seems to move toward the position of the attention object as viewed from the driver.

An information presentation apparatus is provided. A light emission device (40) and a HCU (100) are mounted on a vehicle A together with a device having a driving assist function for assisting a driving operation of a driver or taking a wheel. The light emission device is arranged on an instrument panel of the vehicle (A), and displays at least one light emission spot (51) in a linear light emission area (52) arranged to extend in a width direction (WD) of the vehicle. The HCU acquires operation information about the driving assist function, and controls a light emission mode of the light emission spot in the linear light emission area based on the operation information. The HCU switches a reference position, at which the light emission spot is displayed, between a case where the driving assist function is in operation and a case where the driving assist function is not in operation.

A vehicle implementing vehicle operation assistance information management for autonomous vehicle control transfer may identify a vehicle operation assistance information item indicating a location of an expected vehicle operation control transfer, and may, on a condition that an immanency for the vehicle operation assistance information item is within a maximum relevant immanence, determine an urgency based on the immanency, and present a representation of the vehicle operation assistance information item, which may include controlling a primary graphical display portion of the vehicle to present a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information item, controlling a secondary graphical display portion of the vehicle to present the graphical representation, or a combination thereof. The vehicle may, control an auditory presentation device of the vehicle to present an auditory representation of the vehicle operation assistance information item.

In an apparatus and a method for providing information on autonomous driving of a vehicle to a passenger of the vehicle, when it is recognized whether partial autonomous driving of a vehicle is activated, information on whether a user operates a device including a display may be acquired, and it is determined the user operates the display in a state in which the partial autonomous driving is activated, information on the autonomous driving of the vehicle may be output through the display. An effect of inducing an alert measure of the driver against a dangerous situation may be provided by providing driving information at a site, at which a sight of the driver stays.

The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for displaying output data from a driver attention model on a display. In an example, an apparatus can include a sensor, an augmented reality (AR) windshield, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, the sensor, and the AR windshield, wherein the processor is configured to receive an initial driver attention model, train the initial driver attention model to create a trained driver attention model, transmit the trained driver attention model, receive a global driver attention model based in part on the trained driver attention model, receive sensor data based on operation of the apparatus, run the global driver attention model on the sensor data to generate output data, and cause the output data to be displayed on the AR windshield.

An information presentation apparatus is provided. A light emission device and a HCU are mounted on a vehicle as the information presentation apparatus. The light emission device is arranged on an instrument panel, and displays at least one light emission spot in a linear light emission area arranged to extend in a width direction of the vehicle. The HCU acquires monitoring information including at least position information of the risk target detected by the peripheral monitoring device, and calculates a risk level of the risk target, detected in a traveling direction of the vehicle, based on the monitoring information. When detecting a plurality of the risk targets, the HCU selects one of the risk targets having a highest risk level as a highest risk target, and displays the light emission spot, indicative of a direction of the highest risk target, in the linear light emission area.

A display control apparatus includes an input unit that receives recognition results of a change in an environment surrounding a vehicle, and a controller that generates and outputs a control signal to an image generating apparatus such that the image generating apparatus generates a first predetermined image representing a first presentation image on a display medium. The controller controls the image generating apparatus such that an image sharpness gradually lowers from the first presentation image to a second presentation image lower in image sharpness than the first presentation image on the display medium during a predetermined duration of time, based on the received recognition results.