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Display device for vehicle

  • US 10,082,670 B2
  • Filed: 11/09/2017
  • Issued: 09/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A display device for a vehicle, the display device comprising:

  • a surrounding environment recognition unit configured to recognize surrounding environment of a first vehicle as an own vehicle; and

    a display unit that includes a display area and is configured to display, in the display area, information to be notified to a driver, on a basis of a recognition result of the surrounding environment recognition unit,the display unit being configured to display a first vehicle icon substantially in a middle of the display area in a lateral direction of the display area, the first vehicle icon corresponding to the first vehicle,the display unit being configured to display line icons on right and left sides of the first vehicle icon on a condition that the surrounding environment recognition unit recognizes lane markers on right and left sides of an own-vehicle-traveling lane on which the first vehicle travels, the line icons corresponding to the lane markers of the own-vehicle-traveling lane,the display unit being configured to display an adjacent-lane line icon sideward of a corresponding one of the line icons on a condition that the surrounding environment recognition unit recognizes a lane marker of an adjacent lane that is adjacent to the own-vehicle-traveling lane, the adjacent-lane line icon corresponding to the lane marker of the adjacent lane,the line icons and the adjacent-lane line icon being displayed, with a clearance between the line icons narrowing as is farther away from the first vehicle icon, and with a clearance between the corresponding one of the line icons and the adjacent-lane line icon narrowing as is farther away from the first vehicle icon,the first vehicle icon being on fixed display,the line icons and the adjacent-lane line icon being on movable display, in the lateral direction of the display area,the surrounding environment recognition unit being configured to recognize presence or absence of an obstacle in the adjacent lane, andthe display unit being configured to provide color-coded display of a display region between the corresponding one of the line icons and the adjacent-lane line icon, according to the presence or the absence of the obstacle in the adjacent lane, the display region corresponding to the adjacent lane.

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