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Display control device for vehicle

  • US 10,269,331 B2
  • Filed: 02/22/2017
  • Issued: 04/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A display control device for a vehicle, the display control device comprising:

  • a display controller configured to display display images on a windshield of the vehicle, the display images comprising a first display of a traveling direction information that is necessary to drive the vehicle and a second display of a traveling state of the vehicle;

    a visibility reducing area detector configured to detect a presence or an absence of a visibility reducing area on the windshield, wherein the visibility reducing area has lower visibility of a driver than a visibility area that is provided on the windshield adjacently to the visibility reducing area; and

    a gaze detector configured to detect a gaze of the driver,wherein while the display controller displays the display images on the windshield, and when (1) the visibility reducing area detector detects the visibility reducing area, (2) the display controller displays the second display on the visibility area, and (3) the display controller determines that the driver keeps the gaze on the visibility reducing area, the display controller switches the display images from first images in that no displays are displayed on the visibility reducing area into second images in that the first display is displayed on the visibility reducing area.

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