Patent ID: 8355839

Claim:
A vision system for a vehicle, said vision system comprising: a camera disposed at a vehicle equipped with said vision system, said camera having a forward field of view in the direction of forward travel of the equipped vehicle, wherein said camera is operable to capture image data; an image processor operable to process image data captured by said camera; wherein, at least in part responsive to processing of captured image data by said image processor, said vision system is operable to provide a night vision function and at least one of (i) a headlamp control function for controlling a headlamp of the equipped vehicle, (ii) a lane departure warning function, (iii) an adaptive cruise control function, (iv) a sign recognition function, (v) a rain sensing function, (vi) an object detection function and (vii) a pedestrian detection function; and an in-vehicle communication control and a human-machine interface located at an interior assembly of the equipped vehicle, wherein said human-machine interface is connected to said in-vehicle communication control via a connective link to communicate at least one human-machine interface signal between said human-machine interface and said in-vehicle communication control, and wherein a global positioning system communicates at least one GPS-derived signal to one of said interior assembly and said in-vehicle communication control via said connective link, said at least one human-machine interface signal and said at least one GPS-derived signal sharing said connective link such that said connective link comprises a shared common connective link between said in-vehicle communication control and said interior assembly.