A method for representing the front field of vision from a motor vehicle on a display panel of a display includes sensing, by an infrared camera system, the field of vision and feeding corresponding infrared data to a data processing unit. The infrared data is modified in the data processing unit on the basis of further information which is fed to the data processing unit and supplied as display data for actuating the display. The infrared camera system is a near-infrared camera system which senses the light from an infrared light source which is reflected from the field of vision and supplies it as corresponding near-infrared data to the data processing unit. A further infrared camera system is a far-infrared camera system which senses the thermal radiation from the field of vision which is fed as corresponding far-infrared data to the data processing unit. Furthermore, the physical variables from the field of vision which are sensed by one or more sensors are fed as corresponding sensor data to the data processing unit.