Patent ID: 6947064

Claim:
A process for displaying a perspective image (B) with an image element ( 4 A through 4 H) for at least one occupant of a vehicle, wherein the image (B) represents the perspective of the occupant, said process comprising: generating a virtual display representing the operating environment of the vehicle, displaying within the virtual display the image element ( 4 A through 4 H) as a three dimensional image, changing at least one characteristic of an image element ( 4 A through 4 H) depending at least one of: the roadway ahead (F), an operating parameter of the vehicle, and a parameter of an object ( 6 ) identified in the area of the vehicle preceding roadway (F), wherein said display includes at least one three dimensional image element representing an operating parameter or providing warning information, and wherein the contour of the roadway (F) in the display (B) is continuously conformed to the natural course of the stretch of road ahead of the vehicle.