Methods, systems, and storage media are described for assisting the operation of a first vehicle. In embodiments, a computing device of the first vehicle may obtain first sensor data from a first sensor of the first vehicle. The first sensor data may be representative of a second vehicle proximate to the first vehicle. The computing device may determine a first position of the second vehicle relative to the first vehicle; initiate a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications session with the second vehicle; receive second sensor data from the second vehicle during the V2V communications session; and determine a second position based on the second sensor data. The second position may be a position of the second vehicle relative to a third vehicle. The computing device may display an image of the third vehicle on a display device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A control system for an autonomous driving vehicle is provided with an information provision device 10 configured to provide a driver with information and an operation request part configured to control the information provision device to provide the driver with information during autonomous driving to thereby request a predetermined operation to the driver. The operation request part is provided with a margin time calculation part configured to calculate a margin time until a timing at which the driver should start the operation when the operation should be requested to the driver and an information provision control part configured to provide the driver with information differing according to the margin time.

A vehicle light emitting display device is provided with at least one light source which can be controlled to turn on and off and a light reflecting member disposed in front of a driver of a vehicle. The vehicle light emitting display device forms a virtual image which can be observed by the driver, by emitting light of the light source from lower side of an instrument panel of the vehicle toward the light reflecting member. The vehicle light emitting display device is further provided with a forward and rearward movable mechanism that freely moves a position, at which light is emitted from the light source toward the light reflecting member, in a forward and rearward direction which is a travel direction of the vehicle.

The invention relates to a display control apparatus (1) for dynamically controlling the display of information in a vehicle (3). The display control apparatus (1) comprises a controller (12) having at least one electronic processor (13). The at least one electronic processor (13) is configured to control first and second displays (4, 5). In dependence on a determined gaze direction of the vehicle driver, the at least one electronic processor (13) controls a switching module (16) to cause a first information data set (INF1) displayed on said first display (4) to be displayed on said second display (5). The present invention also relates to a method of controlling the display of information in a vehicle (3). One aim is to shift the driver's view back to the road.

A gaze safety module is described herein. In an embodiment, the gaze safety module may comprise a gaze area classifier, a monitoring needs estimator, and a display control. The gaze area classifier may be configured to: receive first sensor data from a sensor; and determine a first gaze classification of a driver based, at least in part, on the first sensor data. The monitoring needs estimator may be configured to: receive driving condition data; and determine one or more gaze requirements. The display control may be configured to: pause playback of a media player based, at least in part, on the first gaze classification and the one or more gaze requirements; and determine a first value for a resume type variable based, at least in part, on the first gaze classification and the one or more gaze requirements.

A vehicle display control device that controls to display a virtual image in a subject vehicle equipped with a head-up display that displays the virtual image in association with one front obstacle in outside scenery by projecting a display image on a projection member includes: an image storage device that stores, as the display image, a highlighting image for highlighting the front obstacle by a linear portion surrounding the front obstacle with a margin spaced apart from the front obstacle at a virtual image display position corresponding to an entire range less than an entire circumference other than a lower side of a periphery of the front obstacle; and a virtual image display control device that is provided by at least one processor and controls the virtual image display position and the virtual image display size.

A vehicle information display device including: a subject detecting sensor, that detects a first object positioned in a surrounding area of the vehicle and a second object different from the object; a display portion, that has a display area that displays an object mark corresponded to the object to emphatically display the object detected by the subject detecting sensor, and displays the second object mark so that when a number of the second objects that are in the vicinity of the detected first object and are detected by the subject detecting sensor is large, the emphasizing degree of the vertical component of the second object mark is suppressed in comparison with the emphasizing degree of the vertical component of the first object mark when the number of the second objects is small or no second object is detected.

A navigation system which minimizes vehicle driver distraction through a series of simple, easily identifiable individual large icons separately displayed. The driver taps the screen and sees a first big non-verbal icon for an image related to the driver's query, wherein the driver hears an audio prompt and proceeds to select a desired navigation related to the driver's query.

A method for operating a vehicle information system having at least a first display area and a second display area. An activation signal and a transition signal are received in succession. Graphical data for an activation animation containing a first view and a second view is generated based on the activation signal and the transition signal, and displayed by the first display area and second display area. After the activation signal is received, an appearing of the first view is output, wherein the first view has a first graphical object. After the transition signal is received, a disappearing of the first view and an appearing of the second view are output, wherein the appearing of the second view has a movement effect which depicts a movement from the first display area to the second display area. Also disclosed is a vehicle information system.

This document describes a pedestrian alert system that can draw a driver's attention to a pedestrian on or near a roadway. The described pedestrian alert system can help prevent collisions with pedestrians and other objects in poor visibility environments or when drivers may be distracted. For example, a system can determine a presence of an object in or near a travel path of a host vehicle. The system can also determine the object's position relative to the host vehicle and control a light bar to provide an indication of the object. The indication can have specific characteristics to indicate the object's position relative to the host vehicle. In this way, the described pedestrian alert system can utilize sensors to focus a driver's attention on an object before a potential crash occurs and reduce the number of traffic-related deaths.