Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal panel has a display surface of a planar shape on which a plurality of pixels are located. The front protective plate is located so as to face the display surface of the liquid crystal panel. The optical path changing portion is located between an emission surface of the front protective plate and an air layer located closer to the back side than the emission surface is and located closest to the emission surface. The optical path changing portion changes an optical path of light that enters the optical path changing portion so as to expand an emission angle when the incident light is emitted from the emission surface of the front protective plate.

Abstract: According to a display control device of this invention, various notification information is classified into a plurality of predetermined patterns of display modes in accordance with values of at least two parameters out of three parameters of the relation with driving, importance for the user, and immediacy of display, and displaying on a display device in the classified display mode. As a result, it is possible to notify information to a user at an appropriate timing with easily and intuitively understandable contents for the user without interrupting driving by the user.

Abstract: According to an in-vehicle control apparatus, it is configured to receive information of a plurality of operation keys displayed on a display, to identify from a result of voice recognition of a user's speech, the operation key corresponding thereto on the basis of the information of the operation keys, and to execute a function assigned to the operation key upon receiving an instruction for execution by the user using a decision key, so that it is possible to perform an operation without making contact directly with the plurality of operation keys displayed on the display and without the need of a complex key operation. Further, solely by mounting just one decision key on a steering wheel, it becomes possible to safely perform the operation about the operation key displayed on the display without the user releasing his/her hand from the steering wheel during driving.

Abstract: An emphasis level R is calculated in accordance with a difference between a position of a hand of an operator A specified based on a detection signal of a 3D camera 6 and a predetermined position of a hand for performing a gesture operation. A notification of a presence of an operation object intended for the gesture operation is provided with the calculated emphasis level R to thereby guide the hand of the operator A to a predetermined position of a hand, every time the emphasis level R is calculated in response to the detection of the hand of the operator A by the 3D camera 6.

Abstract: A drive support system includes a motion information acquiring unit 1 that acquires motion information of a driver of a vehicle; a vehicle information acquiring unit 2 that acquires vehicle information about a state of the vehicle; a controller 4 that decides drive support contents corresponding to the motion pattern matching the motion information of the driver and to the state of the vehicle the vehicle information indicates from the support condition data that records drive support contents corresponding to a motion pattern of a driver to be provided with the drive support and the state of the vehicle; and an information presentation unit 6 that presents the drive support contents the controller 4 decides.

Abstract: An information display apparatus includes: an around-the-vehicle sensor 3 that detects an obstacle around a vehicle; a transmissive display apparatus 4 which has a plurality of LEDs disposed inside a vehicle interior structural member, and performs a display by lights of LEDs 42 transmitted through a surface of the structural member and irradiated outside; and a controller 2 that determines a driver's driving operation based on vehicle information about a driving operation, and allows the transmissive display apparatus 4 provided at the structural member present in a direction of a blind spot area in which the obstacle is detected by the around-the-vehicle sensor 3, among the blind spot areas formed by the vehicle interior structural members obstructing the visual field of a driver looking outside the vehicle in the driving operation, to display information on the obstacle.

Abstract: An input device displays a screen including character input buttons to each of which characters are assigned, and each of which specifies one character assigned thereto, as a character to be inputted, according to the number of times that a selection operation is performed thereon, and display area B in which a character to be inputted specified through a selection operation performed on the character input buttons is displayed in order on a display device, specifies candidate characters each of which can be inputted to follow a character string being inputted and displayed in the display area B from the character strings of words each including the character string being inputted, and, when a character to be inputted which is specified to follow the character string is not included in the candidate characters, tones down and displays the character to be inputted immediately after the character string.