A multi-camera vision system for a vehicle includes a plurality of video cameras having respective fields of view external of the vehicle. Captured image data is provided to and processed at a central data processor in order to detect objects that are within the field of view of at least some of the video cameras. The vehicle is equipped with a sensor system having at least one non-visual sensor that senses sensor data in a region external of the vehicle. The sensed sensor data is provided to the central data processor. A potential hazard present exterior the vehicle is determined to exist via processing at the central data processor of at least one of received image data and received sensor data.

Information is acquired to contribute to determining the existence of at least one of an attachment anomaly in attachment of an imaging unit to a car and an attachment anomaly in attachment of a predetermined fixed object to the car. An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit and an image processor. The imaging unit captures an image of the surroundings of the car. The image processor detects continuous variation of a predetermined subject appearing in at least one predetermined region that is a portion of the entire region of the image captured by the imaging unit. The image processor makes a determination of whether an attachment anomaly exists based on the continuous variation.

A display system for a vehicle includes a head-up display unit operable to display, at a display area at a windshield of the vehicle, information that is viewable by a driver of the vehicle when the driver is normally operating the vehicle. The head-up display unit includes a Köhler illuminator having a light source and an optical element. A reconfigurable mask is backlit by Köhler illumination generated by the Köhler illuminator.

A head-up display (HUD) including a direction-information generator, a shift device, and a display system. The direction-information generator generates direction information to be superimposed on a road surface ahead of a vehicle on which the HUD is mounted. The direction information represents a direction of travel to be followed by the vehicle. The shift device shifts at least some of the direction-change information into the display area when the direction information includes direction-change information to represent a change in the direction of travel and the direction-change information falls outside a display area. The display system displays the direction information within the display area as a virtual image.

Disclosed is a vehicle. The vehicle comprises: storage in which a plurality of reference images and position information corresponding to respective plurality of reference images are stored; and a processor which acquires through a camera an image of the surrounding environment in which the vehicle is traveling, acquires a reference image corresponding to the current position of the vehicle among the plurality of reference images if the visibility of the surrounding environment image satisfies a predetermined condition, acquires an image in which the surrounding environment image and the reference image are merged, and controls the operation of the vehicle on the basis of the merged image.

A transparent flexible display film is applied to a vehicle windshield, either as a film applied to the surface of the windshield or as a layer in the laminated glass comprising the windshield. A connected computer renders a synthesized view of the external environment around the vehicle, including visual representations of information received from an on-board data sensor or from an external source. No special glasses or helmets are required for the operators and if the system fails, the display film is transparent and will not impede the operators view.

An augmented reality information displaying device according to the embodiment includes a storage, a display-position deciding unit, and a display controller. The storage stores augmented reality information associated with a real position. The display-position deciding unit decides a display position of the augmented reality information on a display screen of a transmission-type display device based on a real position of a user that visually recognizes the display screen, a real position of the display screen, the real position in the scene through the display screen associated with the augmented reality information. The display controller controls to display, at a display position decided by the display-position deciding unit, the augmented reality information corresponding to a mode according to positional relationship between the real position of the user and the real position associated with the augmented reality information in the scene.

A drive support display device supporting a drive of a self-vehicle based on a detection result by an object detector regarding a nearby area of the self-vehicle. The device receives object information from an external source, the object information identifying a nearby object existing in the nearby area of the self-vehicle, determines whether the nearby object is detected by the object detector, and provides a warning indicator when the determination section determines that the nearby object is an undetected nearby object that is not detected by the object detector. As a result, the undetected nearby object, which is already identified as existing somewhere nearby the self-vehicle but is invisible therefrom, may be emphasized in an image provided by the drive support display device.

At least one imaging unit for emitting an image in the form of a beam path and at least one mirror module for deflecting the beam path which is emitted by the imaging unit are included in a head-up display for a motor vehicle. The mirror module includes at least two different mirrors which are movable into the beam path, and a respective curvature of the mirrors is matched to respective vehicle-specific windshield variants. The head-up display may be arranged in the motor vehicle by selecting one of the mirrors whose curvature is matched to the windshield variant, embodied in a vehicle-specific manner, and arranging the selected mirror in a region through which the beam path extends in the case of an activated imaging unit.

A vehicular trailer hitching assist system includes a rear backup camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and a control disposed in the vehicle. A display device includes a video display screen operable to display video images for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. During a hitching maneuver event undertaken by the driver to hitch a trailer hitch of the vehicle to a trailer tongue of a trailer, and while the driver of the vehicle is maneuvering the vehicle to hitch the vehicle to the trailer, the control outputs video images derived from image data captured by the rear backup camera for display by the video display screen. At least one overlay overlays the displayed video images to guide the driver during the hitching maneuver. The at least one overlay aids in guiding connection of the trailer hitch of the vehicle to the trailer tongue of the trailer.