Patent ID: 7126583

Claim:
A vehicle including an interactive display system for a vehicle, comprising: forming means for forming an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of a forward-facing occupant of the vehicle, interacting means coupled to said forming means for enabling the occupant to interact with said forming means to direct another vehicular system to perform an operation, said interacting means comprising a touch pad arranged to enable the occupant to interact with said forming means to direct the another vehicular system to perform a operation, said forming means being arranged to form the image apart from said touch pad, and correlation means for correlating a location on said touch pad which has been touched by the occupant to the image to enable the occupant to change the image formed by said forming means or direct the another vehicular system to perform an operation by touching said touch pad, said correlation means being coupled to said forming means and arranged to cause said forming means to display an indicator in the image which correlates to the location on said touch pad touched by the occupant.