Navigation System And Indicator Image Display System
First Claim
1. A navigation system displaying an image (including graphics, letters, and symbols) so as to overlap a view seen in a forward direction of a front window provided in a mobile object wherein the image is displayed to a driver while changing a size of at least one graphic (including symbols and letters) in the image along with the elapse along with movement of the mobile object.
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Abstract
A route guidance method for displaying to a driver depth information within a range of several tens of meters to several hundreds of meters in a forward direction indispensable for route guidance of a mobile object without introducing a large scale optical system and a route guidance system using the same are provided as an object. A navigation system for displaying an image (including graphics, letters, and symbols) 5 so that it overlaps a view seen in a forward direction of a front window 3 provided in a mobile object 100, wherein the image 5 is displayed to the driver while changing a size of the image 5 along with the elapse along with movement of the mobile object 100.
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11 Claims
- 1. A navigation system displaying an image (including graphics, letters, and symbols) so as to overlap a view seen in a forward direction of a front window provided in a mobile object wherein the image is displayed to a driver while changing a size of at least one graphic (including symbols and letters) in the image along with the elapse along with movement of the mobile object.
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2. A navigation system forming an image of a displayed image of a display mounted in a mobile object on a front window provided in the mobile object on an opposite side to a driver'"'"'s seat so as to display the displayed image of the display to the driver of the mobile object, wherein the image is displayed to a driver while changing a size of at least one graphic (including symbols and letters) in the image along with the elapse along with movement of the mobile object.
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3. A navigation system reflecting a part of light emitted from a display surface of a display mounted in the mobile object at a front window of the mobile object and forming a virtual image of the displayed image of the display in the direction ahead of the front window so as to display the image to the driver of the mobile object, wherein the image is displayed to a driver while changing a size of at least one graphic (including symbols and letters) in the image along with the elapse along with movement of the mobile object.
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6. (canceled)
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7. An indicator image display system enabling a user in a mobile object to view an indicator image by overlapping the indicator image on the view of the surroundings of said mobile object as seen through a transparent member, comprising:
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an image generation unit generating said indicator image, a display system displaying the indicator image generated by said image generation unit and overlapping said indicator image on the view of the surroundings of said mobile object on said transparent member so that the indicator image and a landmark feature seen through said transparent member have a constant positional relationship, and a processing unit computing a distance from said mobile object to said landmark feature and controlling an operation of at least one of said image generation unit and said display system so as to increase the size of said indicator image overlapped on said transparent member along with a reduction of said computed distance along with movement of said mobile object. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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8. An indicator image display system enabling a user in a mobile object to view an indicator image by overlapping the indicator image on the view of the surroundings of said mobile object seen through a transparent member, comprising:
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an image generation unit generating said indicator image, a display system displaying the indicator image generated by said image generation unit and overlapping said indicator image on the view of the surroundings of said mobile object on said transparent member so that the indicator image and a landmark feature seen through said transparent member have a constant positional relationship, and a processing unit computing a distance from said mobile object to said landmark feature and controlling an operation of at least one of said image generation unit and said display system so as to reduce the size of said indicator image overlapped on said transparent member along with an increase of said computed distance along with movement of said mobile object.
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