HEAD-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM

• US 20090303158A1
• Filed: 06/09/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation), Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation), Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: TAKAMATSU, Masahiro, NOMURA, Kouji, TAKAHASHI, Nobuyuki, Aoki, Kunimitsu
• Application Number:
  US12/481,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20090303158A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/7
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0093 with means for monitoring data relating to the user, e.g. head-tracking, eye-tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays

Abstract

A head-up display system having a judgment boundary information storage storing judgment boundary information defining judgment area used for judging based on a movement of the driver'"'"'s eye position whether or not a reflecting angle of the reflector is adjusted, an imaging device imaging an imaging area, an eye position detecting device detecting a driver'"'"'s eye position in the imaging area based on image information imaged by the imaging device, a judging device judging whether or not a predetermined adjusting condition is satisfied when the eye position detected by the eye position detecting device is outside the judgment boundary, an install state determining device determining an install state of the reflector based on the detected eye position when the judging device judges that the adjusting condition is satisfied, and a reflector adjusting device adjusting the reflector to be in the determined install state.

Claims

1. A head-up display system having a display unit and a reflector, wherein the display unit emits indication lights of display information, and the reflector reflects the indication lights towards a projecting point of a projecting area on a windshield of a vehicle, the head-up display system superposing an image of the display information, which is projected to the projecting point of the projecting area, on a foreground seen from a driver'"'"'s eye position, so as to be recognized the image and the foreground through the windshield simultaneously, the head-up display system comprising:

a judgment boundary information storage storing judgment boundary information, which defines judgment area used for judging based on a movement of the driver'"'"'s eye position in an eye range of the vehicle whether or not a reflecting angle of the reflector is adjusted;

an imaging device imaging an imaging area having the eye range;

an eye position detecting device detecting the driver'"'"'s eye position in the imaging area based on imaging information imaged by the imaging device;

a judging device making a judgment on whether or not a predetermined adjusting condition is satisfied when the eye position detected by the eye position detecting device is outside the judgment boundary defined by the judgment boundary information;

an install state determining device determining an install state of the reflector based on the detected eye position when the judging device judges that the adjusting condition is satisfied; and

a reflector adjusting device adjusting the reflector to be in the install state determined by the install state determining device.

2. The head-up display system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a judgment boundary information altering device altering the judgment boundary information stored in the judgment boundary information storage based on the adjustment made to the reflector by the reflector adjusting device so as to define the judgment area corresponding to the detected eye position.