DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20150067574A1
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Okita, Munechika, Nishimura, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,904,467 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/145 Instrument input by combination of touch screen and hardware input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L

Abstract

A display device 100 for displaying content on a display 12, integrated with a touch panel 23, includes position detection means 32 for detecting a position indicated on the display; and content layout determination means 33 for determining a layout of a plurality of contents displayed on the display wherein, when the position detection means detects that a predetermined position on the display is indicated or a display position of a predetermined content is indicated, the content layout determination means moves at least one of displayed contents, based on a priority of displayed contents predetermined according to the display contents displayed on the display, and displays a soft key at a position where a line of sight movement amount is smaller than a line of sight movement amount of the content.

Claims

1. A display device for displaying content including a soft key on a display integrated with a touch panel, the display device comprising:

a position detection portion that detects a position indicated on the display; and

a content layout determination portion that determines a layout of a plurality of contents displayed on the display wherein

when the position detection portion detects that a predetermined position on the display is indicated or a display position of a predetermined content is indicated, the content layout determination portion moves at least one of contents, based on a priority of contents predetermined according to a combination of contents displayed on the display, and displays the soft key at a position where a line of sight movement amount is smaller than a line of sight movement amount at a position to which the moved content is moved.

2. The display device according to claim 1 wherein, when a vertical length of the display is longer than a horizontal length, the content layout determination portion displays the soft key at a position higher than the position to which the moved content is moved and

when the horizontal length of the display is longer than the vertical length, the content layout determination portion displays the soft key at a position on the display closer to a driver'"'"'s seat than the position to which the moved content is moved.

3. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a content•

soft-key association table that associates a content with the soft key wherein

when the position detection portion detects that a display position of a first content is indicated, the first content being registered in the content•

soft-key association table,

the content layout determination portion moves a displayed second content according to the priority, and

displays the soft key at a position where a line of sight movement amount is smaller than a line of sight movement amount of a position to which the moved second content is moved, the soft key being associated with the first content in the content•

soft-key association table.

4. The display device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a content table in which, for each content group in which a plurality of contents that can be displayed on the display at the same time is registered, the priority of each content is registered in association with a content displayed at a position detected by the position detection portion as an indicated position wherein

the content layout determination portion identifies the priority of each content in the content table based on a first content displayed at a position detected by the position detection portion as an indicated position, moves a displayed second content according to the priority, and displays the soft key at a position where a line of sight movement amount is smaller than a line of sight movement amount of the second content, the soft key having a priority higher than the priority of the second content.

5. The display device according to claim 4 wherein

for each of the content group in which a content not displayed on the display is included, the priority of each content is registered in the content table in association with a content displayed at a position detected by the position detection portion as an indicated position.

6. The display device according to claim 5 wherein

the content layout determination portion displays a content, not displayed before the position detection portion detects that a content is indicated, after the position detection portion detects that the content is indicated, or

erases a content, displayed before the position detection portion detects that a content is indicated, after the position detection portion detects that the content is indicated.

7. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an object detection portion that detects an object, which approaches the display, before the object touches the display wherein

when the object detection portion detects the object, the content layout determination portion moves at least one of displayed contents and displays the soft key at a position where a line of sight movement amount is smaller than a line of sight movement amount of the moved content.

8. The display device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a touch pad for detecting an occupant'"'"'s fingertip position that moves in synchronization with a position of a cursor on the display wherein

the position detection portion detects a position at which the cursor is present when the touch pad is pressed.