Systems, methods and computer readable storage media provide flexible vehicle status notifications via an instrument cluster displayed on an in-vehicle screen. In some examples, when a non-displayed gauge goes into an out-of-parameter or warning range, the gauge may be dynamically shown in the out-of-parameter or warning state in a container position assigned to the gauge in another display or in a dynamic container position in the instrument cluster. In some examples, a popup notification may be provided to inform the driver of a condition. When there are multiple notifications, they may be grouped into definable severity classifications and prioritized so that a notification determined to be a most important message at the time is presented to the driver in a notification zone central to a driver's field of vision on the instrument cluster that allows for reusing screen space for providing warning and information from a range of data sources.

A position in a left-right direction of a display position of a facility figure representing a facility is set to a position overlapping with a virtual line parallel to a traveling lane as viewed from a driver (c). A position in an up-down direction of the display position is determined to be a position overlapping with a road surface on the front side, the position separated upward by H1 from a lower end of a display area of a heads-up display when a distance L from a current position CP to a position TP of a facility is a distance ThL (b1), to be a position separated by H4 (H4<h1) when the distance L is zero, and such that distances H2 and H3 separated upward from the lower end of the display area gradually change from the distance H1 to the distance H4 as the distance L decreases from the distance ThL to zero (b2 and b3). The distance H1 is set such that the facility figure is displayed below a point facing the facility on the road surface on the front side when the distance L is the distance ThL.

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of data lines; a plurality of data drive ICs configured to provide data voltages to the data lines; and a controller configured to rearrange video data received from an external device and transmit region-wise video data to the plurality of data drive ICs, to receive coordinates of information regions included in the video data and store video data of the information regions in advance, to calculate a checksum for checking an error in the region-wise video data based on the coordinates, to transmit the coordinates and the checksum to the data drive ICs and receive feedbacks about comparison results with respect to the checksum, and when a data drive IC that has failed is confirmed based on the feedback results, to update video data of the information region displayed by the data drive IC to region-wise video data of a normal data drive IC and output the video data.

A virtual touch recognition apparatus and a method of correcting a recognition error of the virtual touch recognition apparatus utilize a user's eye position and an image display position or projection position of a head-up display (HUD). The virtual touch recognition apparatus includes a gesture recognizer detecting the eye position of a user, the head-up display projecting an image on the image display position in front of the user, and a controller correcting a recognition error of a virtual touch based on the eye position of the user and the image display position. The apparatus and method can minimize a virtual touch recognition error occurring depending on the user's eye position and the image display position of the HUD when gesture control technology using the virtual touch is applied to a vehicle.

An apparatus includes an information system with at least one pattern generator having a plurality of light nodes, each light node including at least one light emitting element, such as an LED. The at least one pattern generator is positioned with regard to a user of the apparatus such that it is located in the peripheral view of the user. A controller is operatively coupled to the pattern generator and configured to selectively initiate the generation of a visual light pattern on the pattern generator, the visual light pattern being indicative of information which is to be provided to the user of the apparatus.

Disclosed embodiments provide a technical improvement for providing visualization of vehicle speed via a speedometer in an instrument cluster of a vehicle/driver interface of a transportation vehicle by providing multiple indicia of vehicle speed and rate of change of speed in a manner that connotes vehicle motion so as to enhance the driving experience for the driver and improve safety.

A method for pairing a key fob with a control unit is provided. The key fob executes an ID authenticated key agreement protocol with a pairing device based on a key fob identification to authenticate one another and to generate a first encryption key. The pairing device encrypts a control unit identification using the first encryption key. The key fob receives the encrypted control unit identification transmitted from the pairing device. The key fob then executes an ID authenticated key agreement protocol with the control unit based on the control unit identification to authenticate one another and to generate a second encryption key. The key fob then receives an operational key transmitted from the control unit that is encrypted with the second encryption key.

A head-up display device is configured to project a display image in a vehicle onto a projection member that transmits an external real image to display the display image superimposed on the external real image for virtual image display visible to an occupant in the vehicle. A projection unit is configured to project a notification image as the display image for notifying the occupant of specific information onto the projection member. A display control unit is configured to control the projection unit to adjust a virtual image display state of the display image and to cut a virtual image display of specific pixels forming an inner portion inside an outer edge portion of the notification image.

A display unit of the present invention includes a first display (head-up display) for displaying various information by irradiating a surface to be irradiated with video light and a control part for controlling the first display. The control part controls to display information on an inter-vehicle distance (bar graph), information on an inter-intersection (digital numerical value), an intersection image, and an arrow.

In a display unit of the present invention, an instrument frame body (speedometer frame body, power meter frame body) are changed to a map frame body in a process that the road image is stepwise reduced and display to the map image by switching from a road display state to a map display state. Further, the map frame body is changed to the instrument frame body in a process that the map image is stepwise enlarged and displayed to the road image by switching from the map display state to the road display state.