TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20130231861A1
• Filed: 11/18/2010
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hideaki, Yokoyama, Ryu, Ito, Satoru, Hashida, Masaya
• Application Number:
  US13/988,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20130231861A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/523
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635

Abstract

A terminal device mounted on a movable body, includes: an image capturing unit; a determining unit which determines whether to preferentially display an actually captured guide image using a captured image captured by the image capturing unit or a map guide image using map information, based on a relationship between an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit and a traveling direction of the movable body; and a display controlling unit which displays either the actually captured guide image or the map guide image based on a determination by the determining unit. Therefore, it is possible to appropriately determine whether to preferentially display the actually captured guide image or the map guide image.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A terminal device, comprising:

an image capturing unit; and

a display controlling unit which displays either an actually captured image using a captured image captured by the image capturing unit or a map image, on a display unit,

wherein, based on an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit, the display controlling unit displays either the actually captured image or the map image on the display unit.

13. The terminal device according to claim 12, further comprising a detecting unit which detects a tilt of the terminal device,

wherein, based on the tilt of the terminal device detected by the detecting unit, the display controlling unit displays either the actually captured image or the map image, on the display unit.

14. The terminal device according to claim 13,

wherein the detecting unit detects a tilt of the image capturing direction, as the tilt of the terminal device,

wherein, when the tilt of the image capturing direction with respect to a horizontal plane is within a preliminarily set range, the display controlling unit displays the actually captured image on the display unit, and

wherein, when the tilt of the image capturing direction with respect to the horizontal plane is beyond the preliminarily set range, the display controlling unit displays the map image on the display unit.

15. The terminal device according to claim 12,

wherein the terminal device is held by a terminal holding device mounted on a movable body so that the image capturing direction coincides with a traveling direction of the movable body, and

wherein, when a holding by the terminal holding device is removed, the display controlling unit displays the map image on the display unit.

16. The terminal device according to claim 12,

wherein the display controlling unit detects a traveling direction of the terminal device by a sensor provided in the terminal device and/or a holding device which holds the terminal device, and displays either the actually captured image or the map image on the display unit, based on a difference between the image capturing direction and the traveling direction.

17. The terminal device according to claim 12,

wherein, based on the image capturing direction which is analyzed by an image of a road in the captured image, the display controlling unit displays either the actually captured image or the map image on the display unit.

18. The terminal device according to claim 12, further comprising a setting unit which sets a display of the actually captured image to invalid,

wherein, when the display of the actually captured image is set to invalid, the display controlling unit does not display the actually captured image even when a display of the actually captured image is prioritized.

19. An image displaying method executed by a terminal device which includes an image capturing unit, comprising:

a display controlling process which displays either an actually captured image using a captured image captured by the image capturing unit or a map image, on a display unit,

wherein, based on an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit, the display controlling process displays either the actually captured image or the map image on the display unit.

20. An image displaying computer program product stored in a non-transient tangible computer-readable medium and executed by a terminal device which includes an image capturing unit and a computer, the computer program product makes the computer function as:

a display controlling unit which displays either an actually captured image using a captured image captured by the image capturing unit or a map image, on a display unit,

wherein, based on an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit, the display controlling unit displays either the actually captured image or the map image on the display unit.