Vehicular image display device and vehicular image display method

• US 10,137,779 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2015
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Taguchi, Kiyotaka, Haruta, Tokio
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Nan-Ying
• Application Number:
  US15/314,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20170190254A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/16 Type of output information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/197 Blocking or enabling of input functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/654 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2302/09 Reducing the workload of driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2400/92 Driver displays
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 : Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

A vehicular image display device includes a detection unit, a setting image display unit, an image change unit, and a previous notice execution unit. The image change unit changes a setting image of a display screen displayed by the setting image display unit to a setting disable image indicating that a setting of an operation content for a vehicle-mounted device is disabled and including a display of a vehicle speed when the detection unit detects the travel start of the vehicle. The previous notice execution unit executes a previous notice display by continuously moving a boundary between an area in which the setting image is displayed and an area in which the setting disable image is displayed on the display screen so as to increase the area of the setting disable image, prior to a change to the setting disable image.

Claims

1. A vehicular image display device that controls a display of a display screen mounted at a position visible from a driver seat, comprising:

a detection unit that detects a travel start of a vehicle in response to a detection of a driving load applied to a driver of the vehicle;

a setting image display unit that displays a setting image for setting a plurality of operation contents for a vehicle-mounted device, the plurality of operation contents in the setting image indicate different operations of the vehicle-mounted device which are allowed under the driving load currently applied to the driver;

an image change unit that changes the setting image of the display screen to a setting disable image indicating that the setting of the plurality of operation contents for the vehicle-mounted device is disabled and including a display of a vehicle speed when the detection unit detects the travel start of the vehicle; and

a previous notice execution unit that executes a previous notice display by continuously moving a boundary between an area in which the setting image is displayed and an area in which the setting disable image is displayed on the display screen so as to increase the area of the setting disable image, prior to a change to the setting disable image,

wherein

during a moving of the boundary between the area in which the setting image is displayed and the area in which the setting disable image is displayed,

the image change unit;

forbids a display of one or more of the plurality of operation contents which is not allowed to be operated under the driving load currently applied to the driver; and

displays remaining of the plurality of operation contents which is allowed to operate under the driving load currently applied to the driver.

2. The vehicular image display device according to claim 1, wherein

the setting disable image is an image including a route to a destination.

3. A vehicular image display method for controlling a display of a display screen mounted at a position visible from a driver seat, comprising:

determining whether a setting image for setting a plurality of operation contents for a vehicle-mounted device is being displayed;

determining whether a vehicle starts to travel in response to a detection of a driving load applied to a driver of the vehicle, the plurality of operation contents indicating different operations of the vehicle-mounted device which are allowed under the driving load applied to the driver;

changing the setting image on the display screen to a setting disable image indicating that the setting of the plurality of operation contents for the vehicle-mounted device is disabled and including a display of a vehicle speed when the vehicle starts to travel; and

previously notifying that the setting disable image is to be displayed by continuously moving a boundary between an area in which the setting image is displayed and an area in which the setting disable image is displayed on the display screen so as to increase the area of the setting disable image, prior to a change to the setting disable image,

wherein

during a moving of the boundary between the area in which the setting image is displayed and the area in which the setting disable image is displayed,

forbidding a display of one or more of the plurality of operation contents which is not allowed to be operated under the driving load currently applied to the driver, and

displaying remaining of the plurality of operation contents which is allowed to operate under the driving load currently applied to the driver.