A display device includes an image generation device which allows a viewer to visually recognize an image overlaid on a landscape, and a control device which controls the image generation device, wherein the control device infers a degree to which a viewer of the image has understood information represented by the image and controls the light projection device such that a visual attractiveness of the image is changed in response to the inferred degree of understanding.

A vehicle image providing apparatus includes: a processor that determines an actual color of a vehicle based on image data and generates a vehicle image based on the determined actual color of the vehicle; and a storage that stores information generated by the processor. The processor determines the actual color of the vehicle or an actual color of a nearby vehicle and reflects the determined color of the vehicle or nearby vehicle on the vehicle image which is displayed on a display of the vehicle.

A rear backup system for a vehicle includes a rear backup video camera and a display device operable to display video images viewable by a driver of the vehicle. When the vehicle transmission is shifted into reverse gear to commence a backup event, video backup images are displayed and an overlay is also displayed to guide the driver when hitching a trailer hitch of the vehicle to a trailer tongue of a trailer. When the trailer hitch of the vehicle is within the field of view of the rear backup video camera, the overlay guides the driver to connect the trailer hitch of the vehicle to the trailer tongue of the trailer. Display by the video screen of the video images continues during short term forward movement of the vehicle when maneuvering the vehicle to connect the trailer hitch of the vehicle to the trailer tongue of the trailer.

An image processing device includes an image acquiring unit, a detection unit, and a display processing unit. The image acquiring unit is configured to acquire a captured image from an image capturing device configured to capture an image of the periphery of a vehicle. The detection unit is configured to detect a lane marker defining a traveling track of the vehicle from the captured image acquired by the image acquiring unit. The display processing unit is configured to display, on a display device, a superimposition image as the captured image on which a marker image for supporting visibility of the lane marker is superimposed such that the marker image is superimposed on the lane marker detected by the detection unit.

An automotive vehicle includes a sensor configured to detect features external to the vehicle, an HMI configured to signal an alert to an operator of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is in communication with the sensor and the HMI, and is in communication with a non-transient computer-readable storage medium provided with a road furniture database. The road furniture database includes a plurality of items of road furniture having associated road furniture geolocations and road furniture classifications. The controller is configured to, in response to the vehicle being proximate a respective road furniture geolocation for a respective item of road furniture and the sensor not detecting the respective item of road furniture, control the HMI to signal an alert.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing indications of occluded objects. In some aspects a method includes the actions of determining a position of an observer whose view of an object is obstructed by a barrier; determining a position of the object relative to the observer; generating an indication of the position of the object based at least in part on the determined position of the observer; and displaying the indication of the position of the object on a display located between the observer and the barrier.

A display device mountable on a mobile object includes an image forming unit to form an image with light and a light guide to guide the light forming the image to a transmission and reflection member to cause a virtual image of the image be display within a display area. The virtual image overlaps an object outside the mobile object. The image is formed such that a vanishing point of the virtual image being displayed is displaced from a vanishing point of the object.

An image processing apparatus is provided, the image processing apparatus including: a vehicle image information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle image information including at least one captured image captured by a vehicle, and an image-capturing position of the captured image; a road image acquiring unit that acquires at least one road image corresponding to the image-capturing position from a plurality of road images captured by a vehicle; and a superimposed image generating unit that generates a superimposed image in which the road image is superimposed on the captured image.

A display of roadside objects on a vehicle windshield within a primary field of view of a driver, with an indication of a level of importance of the object is provided. A method includes: detecting, by a computer device, a roadside object in a vehicle driver's peripheral view; analyzing, by the computer device, the detected roadside object to assign a level of importance to the object based on predefined levels of importance; and displaying, by the computer device, the roadside object as a semi-transparent object in a display area of a windshield of the vehicle with an indication of the level of importance of the object.

A vehicle control device that operates in an autonomous driving mode, the vehicle control device can include a controller that is configured to obtain vehicle driving information of a vehicle, in a state in which (i) the vehicle moves within a first distance from a destination or (ii) the vehicle receives a stop request while the vehicle is travelling, search for at least one available stopping area based on the vehicle driving information, and display information about the at least one available stopping area on a display unit or transmit the information to a terminal, further the controller is further configured to determine a location of an occupant inside the vehicle, and display the information about the at least one available stopping area on any one selected display inside the vehicle according to which display corresponds to the location of the occupant inside the vehicle.