An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior
rearview mirror assembly, a mirror casing, a reflective element, an
information display, a compass sensor and control circuitry. The compass
sensor is disposed in the mirror casing and has at least a first
magnetoresponsive sensing element and a second magnetoresponsive sensing
element. The information display is disposed behind the reflective
element whereby information displayed by the information display is
viewable through the transflective reflector by a driver of a vehicle
when the information display is displaying information. The control
circuitry determines a directional heading of the vehicle responsive to
the sensing by the first and second magnetoresponsive sensing elements,
and the control circuitry automatically compensates for a deviating
magnetic field of the vehicle and generates a signal indicative of the
directional heading of the vehicle. The information display displays the
directional heading of the vehicle.