In-vehicle display device and vehicle surroundings monitor

• US 20070040661A1
• Filed: 11/11/2004
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Mori, Kenichi, Ishihara, Akio, Takemura, Mitsuo
• Application Number:
  US10/579,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20070040661A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/461
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/152 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• 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: B60K 37/02 Arrangement of instruments arrangement of lighting devices for dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/23 with a predetermined field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/28 with an adjustable field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/105 using multiple cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/207 using multi-purpose displays, e.g. camera image and navigation or video on same display
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/302 combining image information with GPS information or vehicle data, e.g. vehicle speed, gyro, steering angle data
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/306 using a re-scaling of images
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19671 Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19691 Signalling events for better perception by user, e.g. indicating alarms by making display brighter, adding text, creating a sound
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

The present invention provides an in-vehicle display device in which a captured image of the surroundings of the vehicle can be suppressed in strain due to anisotropic enlargement processed lengthwise and breadthwise and the display unit can be efficiently used to display. Then, in the in-vehicle display device, a matrix display type liquid crystal display panel unit is provided on a display device body. The liquid crystal display panel unit uses a substantially square display unit in which a plurality of pixels are provided in matrix shape. Specifically, as for shape of the display unit, longitudinal size is set to enter within a range from 0.95 to 1.2 when the lateral size is 1 and, more specifically, the longitudinal size is set to be approximately 1.1 when the lateral size is 1.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle display device mounted on a front panel in the vehicle interior of a vehicle, said in-vehicle display device comprising:

a dot matrix type display panel unit provided with a display unit which performs image display of the display panel unit and is set to be substantially square seen from the front.

2. The in-vehicle display device according to claim 1,

wherein said display unit of said display panel unit is set so that longitudinal size ranges from 0.95 to 1.2 when lateral size is 1.

3. The in-vehicle display device according to claim 2,

wherein said display unit of said display panel unit is set so that longitudinal size is set to be approximately 1.1 when lateral size is 1.

4. The in-vehicle display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a control unit which switches at least any one piece of information of information on air conditioner operation, information for vehicle control, and clock information and displays on said display panel unit, and

said control unit switchably includes a first mode which switches at least any one piece of said information and displays on said display panel unit; and

a second mode which displays, on the basis of an image signal which make input from an in-vehicle camera for imaging the surroundings of the vehicle, an image corresponding to the image signal on said display device body.

5. A vehicle surroundings monitor for displaying a captured image of the surroundings of a vehicle in the vehicle interior, said vehicle surroundings monitor comprising:

an in-vehicle camera which captures the surroundings of the vehicle; and

an in-vehicle display device as set forth in claim 1, which is mounted in the vehicle interior and displays an image captured by said in-vehicle camera.

6. The vehicle surroundings monitor according to claim 5,

wherein said in-vehicle camera captures a region opposed to the vehicle side in the surroundings of the vehicle.

7. The vehicle surroundings monitor according to claim 5,

wherein said in-vehicle camera captures a region of the vehicle backward in the surroundings of the vehicle.