Abstract: An information display apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding information acquisition unit, and a display. The surrounding information acquisition unit is configured to acquire information on a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and the display is configured to be able to display the surrounding environment and a content of a course or running of the vehicle depending on the surrounding environment. The display is capable of selectably displaying an icon that comprehensively represents the content of the course or the running of the vehicle and the surrounding environment responsible for the content of the course or the running. When the icon is selected, the display displays detailed information on the content of the course or the running of the vehicle and the surrounding environment responsible for the content of the course or the running.

Abstract: A vehicle control system executes a distance calculation process of detecting, corresponding points between a pair of captured images obtained by stereo-imaging, working out a coordinate shift between the corresponding points as a parallax, and calculating a distance up to each corresponding point based on the parallax; and a representative distance calculation process of dividing a distance image, in which a distance of each corresponding point is represented, into multiple strip regions that partition the image in a vertical direction, and working out, for each strip region, a distance for which a frequency is equal to or higher than a predefined value, as a representative distance. The system further executes a determination process of counting the number of representative distances within a monitoring region, and determining a magnitude relationship between the count value and a threshold value, to determine thereby the presence or absence of reflection.

Abstract: A vehicle control system executes a distance calculation process of detecting, corresponding points between a pair of captured images obtained by stereo-imaging , working out a coordinate shift between the corresponding points as a parallax, and calculating a distance up to each corresponding point based on the parallax; and a representative distance calculation process of dividing a distance image, in which a distance of each corresponding point is represented, into multiple strip regions that partition the image in a vertical direction, and working out, for each strip region, a distance for which a frequency is equal to or higher than a predefined value, as a representative distance. The system further executes a determination process of counting the number of representative distances within a monitoring region, and determining a magnitude relationship between the count value and a threshold value, to determine thereby the presence or absence of reflection.