Patent ID: 7372030

Claim:
A method for representing the front field of vision from a motor vehicle on a display panel of a display, comprising the steps of: sensing, by an infrared camera system, the field of vision and feeding corresponding infrared data to a data processing unit; modifying the sensed infrared data in the data processing unit on the basis of further information fed to the data processing unit; supplying the modified infrared data as display data for actuating the display, wherein the infrared camera system includes a near-infrared camera system and a far infrared camera system, the near-infrared camera system senses the light from an infrared light source which is reflected from the field of vision and supplies corresponding near-infrared data to the data processing unit, the far-infrared camera system senses the thermal radiation from the field of vision and supplies corresponding far-infrared data to the data processing unit, and physical variables from the field of vision are sensed by at least one sensor and fed as corresponding sensor data to the data processing unit; and restricting the field of vision in the data processing unit when processing the near-infrared data and identifying objects in the restricted field of vision when processing the far-infrared data.