VEHICULAR INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

• US 20110133916A1
• Filed: 07/31/2009
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki, Suzuki, Takeyuki, Sato, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US13/055,548
• Publication Number:
  US 20110133916A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/435
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1531 Three-dimensional displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/211 producing three-dimensional [3D] effects, e.g. stereoscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/205 using a head-up display
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/16 Anti-collision systems road vehicle drive control systems for predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision otherwise than by control of a particular sub-unit B60W30/08

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for notifying information projected on a windshield, on the basis of a virtual image containing the information. The system controls a virtual image creation unit (23) so that the virtual image is displaced in at least one of a direction corresponding the advancing direction of a vehicle, a direction corresponding to a vertical direction with respect to the advancing direction, and a vehicle width direction. Moreover, the system controls a notification sound creation unit (24) so as to create a notification sound corresponding to the displacement of the virtual image.

Claims

1. A vehicular information notification system for displaying information on a windshield of a vehicle and making a notification on the basis of the information, the vehicular information notification system comprising:

an obstacle detection unit for detecting an obstacle in front of the vehicle;

a virtual image creation unit capable of projecting a displaceable virtual image onto the windshield, the virtual image creation unit projects the virtual image onto the windshield at a position corresponding to a front edge of the vehicle and at a position corresponding to an edge in the widthwise direction of the vehicle;

a notification sound creation unit capable of creating a notification sound conforming to the virtual image, the notification sound creation unit creates the notification sound indicating that a lateral viewing-field line is a widthwise center of the vehicle, where the lateral viewing-field line is a straight line that passes through two points as viewed from above the vehicle, the first point being a position on the front edge of the vehicle and at a widthwise center of the vehicle, and the second point being a position corresponding to a position of a driver'"'"'s eyes driving the vehicle; and

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a control part for controlling the virtual image creation unit and the notification sound creation unit, the control part controls the virtual image creation unit such that the virtual image is projected onto the windshield, the virtual image corresponding to the obstacle detected by the obstacle detection unit;

wherein the control part controls the virtual image creation unit such that the virtual image is displaced on the windshield in at least one of a direction corresponding to an advancing direction of the vehicle, a direction corresponding to a vertical direction relative to the advancing direction of the vehicle, and the widthwise direction of the vehicle, and controls the notification sound creation unit such that the notification sound is created to correspond to the displacement of the virtual image.

5. The vehicular information notification system of claim 1, wherein the control part controls the notification sound creation unit such that the notification sound is created intermittently based upon a relative distance between the vehicle and the obstacle.

2. (canceled)

3. (canceled)

4. (canceled)