DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20090069974A1
• Filed: 11/02/2005
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kudo, Takahiro, Kawase, Kazushi
• Application Number:
  US11/814,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20090069974A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/25 to the sides of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/004 outside the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/301 combining image information with other obstacle sensor information, e.g. using RADAR/LIDAR/SONAR sensors for estimating risk of collision
• 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 2300/8093 for obstacle warning

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display control device that can assist a driver to check a blind spot more appropriately. In a control device 16 to be mounted on a vehicle to control left front and right front obstruction sensors 11a and 11b for detecting an obstacle ahead of the vehicle, a left camera 12a mounted on left side part of the vehicle to take a video indicative of a view from the vehicle, a right camera 12b mounted on right side part of the vehicle to take a video indicative of a view from the vehicle, and a display device 13 for displaying a video on a screen, the CPU 16b has the display device 13 display, on the basis of detection results of the left front and right front obstruction sensors 11a and 11b, a video taken by the camera 12a or 12b opposite to a direction in which an obstacle is out of line.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a controller for controlling a monitor to display a right front view from a vehicle upon an obstacle being at a left front from the vehicle, and to display a left front view from the vehicle upon an obstacle being at a right front from the vehicle, on the basis of data on whether or not an obstacle is at the left front, and data on whether or not an obstacle being at the right front.

2. A display control device of claim 1, in which the controller controls the monitor to display the right front view upon an obstacle being at the left front and the vehicle being in a traffic jam, and to display the left front view upon an obstacle being at the left front and the vehicle being in a traffic jam, on the basis of data on whether or not the vehicle is in a traffic jam.

3. A display control device comprising:

a controller for controlling a monitor to display a right front view from a vehicle upon a road curve being at a right front from the vehicle, and to display a left front view from the vehicle upon a road curve being at a light front from the vehicle, on the basis of data on whether or not a road curve is at the left front, and data on whether or not a road curve being at the right front.

4. A display control device of claim 3, in which the controller controls the monitor to display the right front view upon a road curve being at the right front and the vehicle being in a traffic jam, and to display the left front view upon a road curve being at the light front and the vehicle being in a traffic jam, on the basis of data on whether or not the vehicle is in a traffic jam.