Vehicle Display Device with Vehicle Movement Compensation

• US 20140379260A1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Maihoefer, Christian
• Application Number:
  US14/376,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20140379260A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/538
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/166 Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/176 Camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/365 Guidance using head up displays or projectors, e.g. virtual vehicles or arrows projected on the windscreen or on the road itself
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays

Abstract

A display device for a vehicle includes an imager that depicts at least one piece of image information on a surface arranged in a vehicle. Depending on an independent movement of the vehicle, the at least one piece of image information can be changed by a compensation device that is designed for the at least substantial compensation for the independent movement of the vehicle. The compensation device is coupled to a determination device, by means of which at least one condition present in the environment of the vehicle can be determined, with which the independent movement of the vehicle can be brought about. The compensation device is configured to convert the at least one piece of image information to a signal of the determination device.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A display device for a vehicle, comprising:

an imager configured to depict at least one piece of image information on a surface arranged in the vehicle;

a compensation device configured to at least substantially compensate for an independent movement of the vehicle by changing the at least one piece of image information depending on the independent movement of the vehicle; and

a determination device, coupled to the compensation device, that is configured to detect at least one condition present in the environment of the vehicle, with which the independent movement of the vehicle can be brought about, wherein the compensation device is configured to convert the at least one piece of image information into a signal of the determination device.

12. The display device of claim 11, wherein the determination device is a detector configured to detect the at least one condition by image analysis or by evaluating electromagnetic waves emitted by the vehicle.

13. The display device of claim 11, wherein the determination device is a receiver configured to detect information emitted by a further vehicle relating to the at least one condition.

14. The display device of claim 11, wherein the determination device is an interrogative device configured to interrogate a database storing data values specifying the at least one condition.

15. The display device of claim 14, wherein the data values are stored in the database depending on an independent movement of the vehicle caused by the at least one condition, wherein the independent movement is detected by a sensor of the vehicle.

16. The display device of claim 11, wherein the surface arranged in the vehicle is a windscreen of the vehicle or a display of the vehicle.

17. The display device of claim 11, wherein in order to compensate for the independent movement of the vehicle, the compensation device is configured

to displace the at least one piece of image information, which is an element that simplifies navigation of the vehicle, in a vertical direction or in a transverse direction of the surface,

to enlarge or reduce the image information, at least in regions, or

to rotate or conceal the image information.

18. The display device of claim 11, wherein the compensation device is configured to change the at least one piece of image information depending on a signal of the determination device, which specifies a geographical position of the at least one condition or an expected time span up to which the at least one condition is reached by the vehicle.

19. The display device of claim 11, wherein the compensation device is configured, when changing the at least one piece of image information, to take into consideration a change in perspective caused by the independent movement of the vehicle, under which conditions a vehicle driver observes the surface.

20. A method for the operation of a display device for a vehicle, the method comprising:

depicting, by an imager, at least one piece of image information on a surface arranged in a vehicle;

at least partially compensating, by a compensation device, for an independent movement of the vehicle changes the at least one piece of image information depending on the independent movement of the vehicle; and

determining, by a determination device, at least one condition present in the environment of the vehicle, with which the independent movement of the vehicle can be brought about,

wherein when the vehicle reaches the at least one condition the determination device transmits a signal to the compensation device and the compensation device converts the at least one piece of image information.