Display control device, information display method, and information display system

• US 10,185,482 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Mori, Yoshihiko, Mizuguchi, Takehisa, Watanabe, Yoshiaki, Takimoto, Yasuaki, Yokota, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu, David H
• Application Number:
  US14/917,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,897 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/164 Infotainment
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/213 Virtual instruments
• 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: B60R 2300/30 characterised by the type of image processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/02 Graphics controller able to handle multiple formats, e.g. input or output formats
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position

Abstract

In the case where entertainment information is acquired as information to be displayed on an instrument panel display 1 when an object indicating driving information is displayed on the instrument panel display 1, an object indicating the entertainment information is moved from the outside of a screen of the instrument panel display 1 to the inside of the screen, and the object indicating the driving information and the object indicating the entertainment information are displayed such that all or part of the object indicating the entertainment information passes behind the object indicating the driving information during the movement.

Claims

1. A display control device mounted in a vehicle and controlling display of a display screen, the display control device comprising:

a receiver that acquires information to be displayed on a first display device mounted in the vehicle; and

a display controller that, in a case where the receiver acquires second information as the information to be displayed on the first display device when an object indicating first information is displayed on the first display device, moves an object indicating the second information from an outside of a screen of the first display device to an inside of the screen, and displays the object indicating the first information and the object indicating the second information such that all or part of the object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information during the movement, or part of the object indicating the second information is overlapped with a back side of the object indicating the first information after the movement,

wherein, upon acquiring the second information and without user interaction, the display controller

transforms a shape of the object indicating the second information,

moves the display of the transformed object indicating the second information in the screen of the first display device such that part of the transformed object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information while maintaining the display content of the second information, thereafter, once display of the transformed object reaches a predefined position on the screen, restores the shape of the transformed object indicating the second information to its original shape, and

displays the restored object indicating the second information.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller transforms and moves the object indicating the first information such that the object indicating the first information retreats in response to approach of the object indicating the second information, and displays the object indicating the first information and the object indicating the second information such that part of the object indicating the second information is overlapped with the back side of the object indicating the first information after the transformation.

3. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein

the receiver acquires, as the information to be displayed on the first display device, information to be displayed on a second display device mounted in the vehicle and,

in a case where the receiver acquires the information being displayed on the second display device as the second information when the object indicating the first information is displayed on the first display device, the display controller moves the object indicating the second information from the outside of the screen of the first display device to the inside of the screen, and displays the object indicating the first information and the object indicating the second information such that all or part of the object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information during the movement, or part of the object indicating the second information is overlapped with the back side of the object indicating the first information after the movement.

4. The display control device according to claim 3, wherein, in a case where the receiver acquires third information as the information to be displayed on the second display device when the object indicating the first information and an object indicating the third information are displayed on the first display device, the display controller moves the object indicating the third information from the inside of the screen of the first display device to the outside of the screen such that all or part of the object indicating the third information passes behind the object indicating the first information, further moves the object indicating the third information from an outside of a screen of the second display device to an inside of the screen of the second display device, and displays the object indicating the third information.

5. The display control device according to claim 1, further comprising an operation detector that detects an operation from an outside, wherein the receiver acquires information corresponding to the operation detected by the operation detector as the second information.

6. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the receiver acquires the second information at a set time lapse from occurrence of a predetermined event when the object indicating the first information is displayed on the first display device.

7. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the receiver acquires the second information in response to a change in a state of a predetermined function when the object indicating the first information is displayed on the first display device.

8. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the first information is information having a priority in safe driving higher than that of the second information.

9. An information display method of displaying information on first and second display devices mounted in a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:

in an information acquisition module, acquiring information displayed on the second display device as second information to be displayed on the first display device when an object indicating first information is displayed on the first display device; and

in a display controller, moving an object indicating the second information acquired by the information acquisition module from an outside of a screen of the first display device to an inside of the screen, and displays the object indicating the first information and the object indicating the second information such that all or part of the object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information during the movement, or part of the object indicating the second information is overlapped with a back side of the object indicating the first information after the movement,

wherein, upon acquiring the second information and without user interaction, the display controller

transforms a shape of the object indicating the second information,

moves the display of the transformed object indicating the second information in the screen of the first display device such that part of the transformed object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information while maintaining the display content of the second information, thereafter, once display of the transformed object reaches a predefined position on the screen restores the shape of the transformed object indicating the second information to its original shape, and

displays the restored object indicating the second information.

10. An information display system comprising:

first and second display devices mounted in a vehicle;

receiver that acquires information to be displayed on the first and second display devices; and

a display controller that, in a case where the receiver acquires information displayed on the second display device as second information to be displayed on the first display device when an object indicating first information is displayed on the first display device, moves an object indicating the second information from an outside of a screen of the first display device to an inside of the screen, and displays the object indicating the first information and the object indicating the second information such that all or part of the object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information during the movement, or part of the object indicating the second information is overlapped with a back side of the object indicating the first information after the movement,

wherein, upon acquiring the second information and without user interaction, the display controller

transforms a shape of the object indicating the second information,

moves the display of the transformed object indicating the second information in the screen of the first display device such that part of the transformed object indicating the second information passes behind the object indicating the first information while maintaining the display content of the second information, thereafter, once display of the transformed object reaches a predefined position on the screen, restores the shape of the transformed object indicating the second information to its original shape, and

displays the restored object indicating the second information.