Vehicular display device and display method of vehicular display device

• US 10,332,456 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2017
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Shoji, Kazumasa, Sone, Ryoko, Ichikawa, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US15/805,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20180218691A1
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/115 Selection of menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/165 Videos and animations
• 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 35/213 Virtual instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• 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 35/53 Movable instruments, e.g. slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0613 The adjustment depending on the type of the information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0646 Modulation of illumination source brightness and image signal correlated to each other
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/066 for control of contrast
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3406 : Control of illumination source illumination devices structurally associated with liquid crystal cells G02F1/1336
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3611 : Control of matrices with row and column drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 : using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence
• 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 display device includes an image display device that is arranged in front of a driver in a vehicle and that displays images. In a case in which the image display device interruptively displays a warning on a partial region of an image display region, the image display device displays, on the partial region, a warning image indicating warning content and a frame image surrounding the warning image. The image display device performs animation display to change at least one of the position and the shape of the frame image when starting display of the frame image.

Claims

1. A vehicular display device comprising:

an image display device arranged in front of a driver in a vehicle and configured to display images, wherein

when the image display device interruptively displays a warning on a partial region of an image display region, the image display device displays, on the partial region, a warning image indicating warning content and a frame image surrounding the warning image,

the image display device performs an animation display to change at least one of a position and a shape of the frame image when starting display of the frame image, and

the image display device displays currently measured vehicle information on areas outside of the partial region of the image display region.

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

the frame image is moved from a position closer to a center of the partial region to an edge of the partial region in the animation display.

3. The vehicular display device according to claim 2, wherein

the frame image is further caused to fade in to be displayed in the animation display.

4. The vehicular display device according to claim 2, wherein

the image display device displays, on the image display region, an indicating needle image indicating a physical quantity corresponding to an output speed of a driving source of the vehicle, and

when the indicating needle image overlaps the partial region, the image display device causes luminance of a portion of the indicating needle image displayed on the partial region to be lower than luminance of a portion displayed in an area other than the partial region.

5. The vehicular display device according to claim 2, wherein

when the image display device alternately switches and displays a plurality of warning images in the partial region, the image display device performs the animation display when each of the warning images is displayed in the partial region for a first time, and the image display device does not perform the animation display when the warning images are displayed in the partial region for second and subsequent times.

6. The vehicular display device according to claim 1, wherein

the frame image is further caused to fade in to be displayed in the animation display.

7. The vehicular display device according to claim 6, wherein

the image display device displays, on the image display region, an indicating needle image indicating a physical quantity corresponding to an output speed of a driving source of the vehicle, and

when the indicating needle image overlaps the partial region, the image display device causes luminance of a portion of the indicating needle image displayed on the partial region to be lower than luminance of a portion displayed in an area other than the partial region.

8. The vehicular display device according to claim 6, wherein

when the image display device alternately switches and displays a plurality of warning images in the partial region, the image display device performs the animation display when each of the warning images is displayed in the partial region for a first time, and the image display device does not perform the animation display when the warning images are displayed in the partial region for second and subsequent times.

9. The vehicular display device according to claim 1, wherein

the image display device displays, on the image display region, an indicating needle image indicating a physical quantity corresponding to an output speed of a driving source of the vehicle, and

when the indicating needle image overlaps the partial region, the image display device causes luminance of a portion of the indicating needle image displayed on the partial region to be lower than luminance of a portion displayed in an area other than the partial region.

10. The vehicular display device according to claim 9, wherein

when the image display device alternately switches and displays a plurality of warning images in the partial region, the image display device performs the animation display when each of the warning images is displayed in the partial region for a first time, and the image display device does not perform the animation display when the warning images are displayed in the partial region for second and subsequent times.

11. The vehicular display device according to claim 1, wherein

when the image display device alternately switches and displays a plurality of warning images in the partial region, the image display device performs the animation display when each of the warning images is displayed in the partial region for a first time, and the image display device does not perform the animation display when the warning images are displayed in the partial region for second and subsequent times.

12. A display method of a vehicular display device, the display method comprising:

a step of displaying currently measured vehicle information on areas outside of a partial region of an image display region,

a step of interruptively displaying a warning on the partial region of the image display region in the vehicular display device, wherein

during the step of interruptively displaying, a warning image indicating warning content and a frame image surrounding the warning image are displayed on the partial region, and animation display is performed to change at least one of a position and a shape of the frame image when display of the frame image is started.