Given by the “Society for Information Display” (SID) in the categories “Display Application of the Year”, Audi receives the award for the development of a virtual exterior mirror.
The Society for Information Display (SID) is a global professional organization that focuses on the further development of electronic display and visual information technologies and offers a platform for cooperation, communication and further development of the display industry and its technologies. The members are specialists from a wide range of business areas in the display industry, such as research, design, manufacture, application, marketing and sales.
Audi’s solution uses small exterior side cameras and a door‐mounted 7” OLED interior display, that being the best technology for clear vision no matter what the sun and ambient temperature might be doig. It has been developed in parallel to EVs, as improved aerodynamics reduces wind noise, more audible in an EV because of no combustion engine.
This display provides a much better image than a conventional mirror can in certain situations, such as driving in direct sunlight. The mirrors also adjust automatically to three driving situations: highway, turning, and parking. On the highway, the field of vision is reduced so that the driver can better estimate speeds when driving fast. When turning, the indicator view extends the relevant side’s image detail to reduce the blind spot. When parking, the field of vision is extended downward.
The camera is integrated into the hexagonal end of the virtual mirror’s flat supports and its images are digitally processed and displayed on high‐contrast, 1,280 × 800‐pixel OLED screens.
