Vehicular rear view mirror/video display

摘要

A rear view mirror/video display (16) includes a one-way mirror (22) and a selectively activated video display (24) that is mounted immediately behind the one-way mirror (22) so that the driver is presented with a typical semi-obstructed rearward view when the video display (24) is deactivated, and an unobstructed rearward view of substantially the same size and aspect ratio when the video display (24) is activated. The video image is obtained from an imaging device (12) mounted to capture a rearward field-of-view that is unobstructed by vehicle body panels (26, 28, 30) but otherwise corresponds in content with that of the image reflected by the one-way mirror (22). Activation and deactivation of the video display (24) may be manual, but is preferably automatic based on vehicle operating conditions (36).