OPERATION GUIDING DEVICE FOR ON-VEHICLE ACCESSORY

• US 20080172154A1
• Filed: 12/26/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: TANAKA, Yasuhiro, TAKAGI, Nobutomo
• Application Number:
  US11/964,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172154A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 11/00 Arrangement of monitoring devices for devices provided for in groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q9/00
• 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

Abstract

An operation guiding device for a vehicle equipped with a plurality of accessories and operation members for operating the accessories is configured by a control unit that carries out detecting a vehicle condition, determining at least one of the operation members to operate an appropriate one of the accessories based on the vehicle condition and illuminating the at least one of the operation members to guide a user to operate the appropriate accessory.

Claims

1. An operation guiding device for a vehicle equipped with a plurality of accessories and operation members for operating the accessories, the operation guiding device comprising:

means for detecting a vehicle condition;

means for determining at least one of the operation members to operate an appropriate one of the accessories based on the vehicle condition; and

means for illuminating the at least one of the operation members to guide a user to operate the appropriate accessory.

2. An operation guiding device as in claim 1, wherein:

the means for detecting a vehicle condition detects a user'"'"'s operation of at least one of the operation members;

the means for determining at least one of the operation members examines whether the user'"'"'s operation is appropriate or not based on the operation of at least one of the operation members carried out by the user, determines at least appropriate one of the operation members if the user'"'"'s operation is judged as being not appropriate; and

the means for illuminating illuminates the at least appropriate one of the operation members.

3. An operation guiding device as in claim 1, further comprising means for providing identification data that identify a plurality of users of a vehicle;

means for memorizing the users by operation patterns of operating a plurality of the operating members along with the identification data, wherein the means for determining at least one of the operation members determines at least one of the operation members for one of the users aboard the vehicle based on one of the memorized operation patterns that corresponds to a portion of the identification data identifying the one of the users aboard the vehicle.

4. An operation guiding device as in claim 3, further comprising means for examining whether an operation pattern of the operation members by the one of the users aboard the vehicle corresponds to one of the operation patterns memorized by the means for memorizing;

and

means for updating the operation patterns if the operation pattern of the operation members by the one of the users aboard the vehicle does not correspond to any one of the operation patterns memorized by the means for memorizing.

5. An operation guiding device as in claim 3, wherein the operation patterns can be manually registered.

6. An operation guiding device as in claim 4, further comprising means for examining whether operation of an operation member by a user is inappropriate or not;

and

means for alarming if the operation of the operation member by the user is inappropriate.

7. An operation guiding device as in claim 6, wherein the means for updating memorized operation patterns does not update if the means for examining judges that the operation of the operation member by the user is inappropriate.