Patent ID: 6917378

Claim:
A method of operating a display system in a vehicle having at least one camera for recording an observation region in the surroundings of the vehicle, having an image processing unit, in which the image data coming from the camera may be processed, having a display screen inside the vehicle, on which the image data coming from the image processing unit may be displayed as an image and having a sensor system for detecting the vehicle movement and relaying movement data to the image processing unit, the method comprising the steps of: at a starting instant, determining a vehicle position as a starting point; moving the vehicle from the starting point; detecting the rotational angle of the vehicle around its vertical axis using the sensor system, beginning from the orientation at the starting point; processing the image data coming from the camera in a image processing unit, taking into consideration the respective current rotational angle of the vehicle, in such a way that the orientation of objects from the observation region displayed in the image on the display screen corresponds to the orientation at the starting instant.