Patent ID: 8849506

Claim:
An operation system for a vehicle operation system comprising: an operation section on which a touch panel and a camera for capturing an image of a vehicle operator's finger or fingers are installed, the operation section providing a plurality of pop-ups; a display section provided with a monitor installed in the middle of a dashboard in the vehicle, separately from the operation section; a finger determination processor configured to determine from an image captured by the camera both whether or not an object approaching the operation section is a hand based an image processing signal and once the finger determination processor determines that the object is a hand, determines the number of fingers on the hand based on the image processing signal of the hand as the hand gradual increases in size as the hand approaches the operation section to determine which of the pop-ups to display; a conversion processor configured to convert a determination signal of the finger determination processor into a display instruction signal and outputting the display instruction signal, wherein the conversion processor generates an instruction signal that indicates the number of fingers approaching the operation section when it is determined that the object approaching is a hand; and a pop-up processor configured to display an image of the hand with the determined number of fingers based on the number of determined fingers on the monitor of the display section and also display a particular operation button or an operation window on the monitor of the section.