Display device and display system

• US 10,527,447 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2017
• Issued: 01/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Jin, Xin, Obara, Ryohei
• Primary Examiner(s): Cass, Jean Paul
• Application Number:
  US15/680,851
• Publication Number:
  US 20180052003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 701455
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0231 Circuits relating to the driving or the functioning of the vehicle monitoring tyres B60C23/00; indicating overspeed B60K31/00; for dash boards B60K37/00, B60Q3/10; for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52; brake control systems B60T; registering or indicating the working of vehicles G07C5/00; measuring distance G01C, e.g. combinations of speed and distance G01C23/00; engine indicators G01L; measuring speed or acceleration G01P
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/021 Determination of steering angle
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence

Abstract

A display device includes a display, a position detector, a storage device and an electronic control unit that are provided in a vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to control the display such that a map view is shown on the display on the basis of a map information, control the display such that an image indicating a position of the vehicle, detected by the position detector, is superimposed on the map view shown on the display, acquire information about a traveling status of the vehicle, determine whether a user of the vehicle is getting lost on the basis of the information about the traveling status of the vehicle and the map information, and, when the electronic control unit determines that the user is getting lost, control the display such that the scale of the map view shown on the display is set to a predetermined value or larger.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display provided inside a cabin of a vehicle;

a position detector provided in the vehicle, the position detector being configured to detect a position of the vehicle;

a storage device provided in the vehicle, the storage device being configured to store map information;

a vehicle speed detector provided in the vehicle, the vehicle speed detector being configured to detect a vehicle speed of the vehicle;

a steering angle detector provided in the vehicle, the steering angle detector being configured to detect a steering angle of the vehicle; and

an electronic control unit provided in the vehicle, the electronic control unit being configured to;

control the display such that a map view is shown on the display on a basis of the map information;

control the display such that an image indicating the position of the vehicle, detected by the position detector, is superimposed on the map view shown on the display;

acquire information about a traveling status of the vehicle;

determine whether a user of the vehicle is getting lost on a basis of the information about the traveling status of the vehicle and the map information; and

when the electronic control unit determines that the user is getting lost, control the display such that a scale of the map view shown on the display is set to a predetermined value or larger;

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to;

acquire the position, vehicle speed and steering angle of the vehicle from the position detector, the vehicle speed detector and the steering angle detector as the information about the traveling status of the vehicle;

identify a road on which the vehicle is traveling and a width of the road on a basis of the position of the vehicle and the map information; and

when the width of the road is smaller than a predetermined width, when the vehicle speed of the vehicle is lower than or equal to a predetermined speed lower than a regulation speed of the road and when the steering angle of the vehicle indicates that the vehicle was about to enter a one-way road in a reverse direction and subsequently returned to a straight-ahead traveling state, determine that the user is getting lost.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic control unit is configured to, when the vehicle has crossed a road on which the vehicle has once traveled or has traveled again on the road in a period during which the width of the road remains smaller than a predetermined width, determine that the user is getting lost.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic control unit is configured to, when the width of the road is smaller than a predetermined width and when the vehicle has turned around during traveling has traveled in an opposite direction, determine that the user is getting lost.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the electronic control unit is configured to, when the electronic control unit controls the display such that the scale of the map view is set to the predetermined value or larger at a time when the electronic control unit determines that the user is getting lost and, after that, when the width of the road becomes larger than or equal to the predetermined width, control the display such that the scale of the map view is returned to a scale before being set to the predetermined value or larger.

5. A display system comprising:

a display provided inside a cabin of a vehicle;

a position detector provided in the vehicle, the position detector being configured to detect a position of the vehicle;

a vehicle speed detector provided in the vehicle, the vehicle speed detector being configured to detect a vehicle speed of the vehicle;

a steering angle detector provided in the vehicle, the steering angle detector being configured to detect a steering angle of the vehicle;

a first transmission unit provided in the vehicle, the first transmission unit being configured to acquire information about a traveling status of the vehicle and transmit the information to a center arranged remote from the vehicle;

a first reception unit provided in the center, the first reception unit being configured to receive the information transmitted from the first transmission unit;

a storage device provided in the center, the storage device being configured to store map information; and

a first electronic control unit provided in the center, the first electronic control unit being configured to determine whether a user of the vehicle is getting lost on a basis of the information received by the first reception unit and the map information;

a second transmission unit provided in the center;

a second reception unit provided in the vehicle, the second reception unit being configured to receive a signal that is transmitted from the second transmission unit;

a second electronic control unit provided in the vehicle, the second electronic control unit being configured to control the display such that a map view is shown on the display, wherein

the first electronic control unit is configured to control the second transmission unit such that the second transmission unit transmits a predetermined signal to the vehicle when the first electronic control unit determines that the user is getting lost,

the second electronic control unit is configured to control the display such that an image indicating the position of the vehicle, detected by the position detector, is superimposed on the map view shown on the display, and

the second electronic control unit is configured to, when the second reception unit has received the predetermined signal, control the display such that the scale of the map view is set to a predetermined value or larger,

wherein the first transmission unit is configured to acquire the position, vehicle speed and steering angle of the vehicle from the position detector, the vehicle speed detector and the steering angle detector as the information about the traveling status of the vehicle, and

wherein the first electronic control unit is configured to;

identify a road on which the vehicle is traveling and a width of the road on a basis of the position of the vehicle and the map information; and

when the width of the road is smaller than a predetermined width, when the vehicle speed of the vehicle is lower than or equal to a predetermined speed lower than a regulation speed of the road and when the steering angle of the vehicle indicates that the vehicle was about to enter a one-way road in a reverse direction and subsequently returned to a straight-ahead traveling state, determine that the user is getting lost.