IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE

• US 20020003510A1
• Filed: 01/13/1999
• Published: 01/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SHIGETOMI, TETSU
• Application Number:
  US09/229,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20020003510A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/31
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/22 Advertising or display means on roads, walls or similar surfaces, e.g. illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2019/221 on tunnel walls for underground trains

Abstract

An image display apparatus and an image display method for a vehicle provided for achieving stable image display in accordance with the velocity of the vehicle throughout the period in which the vehicle passes through the system installation section. An incoming velocity detector and an outgoing velocity detector are each provided at the ends of the system installation section. The velocity of a train is detected throughout the period in which the train passes through the system installation section. Display timing of display terminals is controlled in accordance with the detected velocity. As a result, even if the velocity of the train changes while the train passes through the system installation section, no drifts of the image viewed by the passenger on the train would result.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

a plurality of image display means placed in a row at specific intervals along a moving direction of the vehicle, each being capable of instantaneously displaying a still-frame image;

a first velocity detection means, placed near the foremost part of the row of the image display means, for detecting a velocity of the vehicle;

a second velocity detection means, placed near the rearmost part of the row of the image display means, for detecting a velocity of the vehicle; and

a means for controlling timing of display of the still-frame images by the image display means, based on the velocity obtained by the first velocity detection means and the velocity obtained by the second velocity detection means.

2. An image display apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the distance between the position where the first velocity detection means is placed and the position where the second velocity detection means is placed is shorter than the length of the vehicle.

3. An image display apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the image display means are each capable of instantaneously displaying still-frame images forming a moving image in time sequence.

4. An image display apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the image display means are each capable of instantaneously displaying still-frame images based on image information given as electrical information.

5. An image display method for a vehicle, including the steps of:

placing a plurality of image display means in a row at specific intervals along a moving direction of the vehicle, each being capable of instantaneously displaying a still-frame image;

placing a first velocity detection means for detecting a velocity of the vehicle near the foremost part of the row of the image display means and placing a second velocity detection means for detecting a velocity of the vehicle near the rearmost part of the row of the image display means; and

controlling timing of display of the still-frame images by the image display means, based on the velocity obtained by the first velocity detection means and the velocity obtained by the second velocity detection means.

6. An image display apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

a plurality of image display means placed in a row at specific intervals along a moving direction of the vehicle, each being capable of instantaneously displaying a still-frame image;

a first velocity detection means, placed near the foremost part of the row of the image display means, for detecting a velocity of the vehicle;

a second velocity detection means, placed near the rearmost part of the row of the image display means, for detecting a velocity of the vehicle;

a switch means for switching information to output from first velocity information obtained by the first velocity detection means to second information obtained by the second velocity detection means when the difference between the first velocity information and second velocity information falls within a specific range in accordance with a movement of the vehicle; and

a means for generating and outputting a signal for controlling timing of displaying the still-frame images by the image display means, based on the first velocity information or the second velocity information selected and outputted by the switch means.

7. An image display apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a means for determining whether the velocity information outputted from the first and second velocity detection means is valid or not;

wherein

the velocity information that is determined as valid by the means for determining is only inputted to the switch means to effect switching.

8. An image display apparatus according to claim 6 wherein the image display means are each capable of instantaneously displaying still-frame images forming a moving image in time sequence.

9. An image display apparatus according to claim 6 wherein the image display means are each capable of instantaneously displaying still-frame images based on image information given as electrical information.

10. An image display method for a vehicle, including the steps of:

placing a plurality of image display means in a row at specific intervals along a moving direction of the vehicle, each being capable of instantaneously displaying a still-frame image;

placing a first velocity detection means for detecting a velocity of the vehicle near the foremost part of the row of the image display means and placing a second velocity detection means for detecting a velocity of the vehicle near the rearmost part of the row of the image display means;

switching information to output from first velocity information obtained by the first velocity detection means to second information obtained by the second velocity detection means when the difference between the first velocity information and the second velocity information falls within a specific range in accordance with a movement of the vehicle, and outputting the second information; and

generating and outputting a signal for controlling timing of displaying the still-frame images by the image display means, based on the first velocity information or the second velocity information outputted.