INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20150308854A1
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: TANAKA, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,383,219 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence

Abstract

An information display device for displaying predetermined information while overlapping the predetermined information with a landscape having a prediction unit that obtains information on a route at a traveling front side and predicts a visual-line movement destination of a user on the basis of the obtained information, and a display controller that changes a display position for the predetermined information on the basis of a prediction result of the prediction unit.

Claims

1. An information display device for displaying predetermined information while overlapping the predetermined information with a landscape comprising:

a prediction unit that obtains information on a route at a traveling front side and predicts a visual-line movement destination of a user on the basis of the obtained information; and

a display controller that changes a display position for the predetermined information on the basis of a prediction result of the prediction unit.

2. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the prediction unit specifies a currently traveling zone on a travelable route and a subsequently traveling zone located in front of the currently traveling zone from data containing at least information on a shape of the travelable route, and calculates a relative angle between the currently traveling zone and the subsequently traveling zone, and the display controller changes a display position of the information to a position corresponding to the predicted visual-line movement destination of the user based on the relative angle.

3. The information display device according to claim 2, wherein the prediction unit specifies a road link of the currently traveling zone and a road link of the subsequently traveling zone from information on road links as line segments representing road zones, and calculates a relative angle between the road link of the currently traveling zone and the road link of the subsequently traveling zone.

4. The information display device according to claim 3, wherein the prediction unit specifies the road link of the currently traveling zone on the basis of a current position, and specifies the road link of the subsequently traveling zone on the basis of a guide route to a destination.

5. The information display device according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of display areas are provided for different visual-line movement destinations of the user, and the display controller displays, on the basis of the relative angle, the predetermined information in one of the plurality of display areas, which corresponds to the predicted visual-line movement destination.

6. The information display device according to claim 5, wherein the display controller displays the predetermined information in a display area corresponding to straight traveling when the relative angle is within a predetermined angle range in which visual-line movement to the right or left is relatively small, and displays the predetermined information in a display area other than the display area corresponding to the straight traveling when the relative angle exceeds the predetermined angle range.

7. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined information contains driving support information for supporting driving and other information, and the display controller changes the display position for the driving support information on the basis of the prediction result of the prediction unit while fixing a display position for the other information.

8. An information display method for displaying predetermined information while overlapping the predetermined information with a landscape, comprising:

a predicting step of obtaining information on a route at a traveling front side and predicting a visual-line movement destination of a user on the basis of the obtained information; and

a display control step of changing a display position for the predetermined position on the basis of a prediction result obtained in the predicting step.

9. The information display method according to claim 8, wherein the predicting step specifies a currently traveling zone on a travelable route and a subsequently traveling zone located in front of the currently traveling zone from map data containing at least information on the travelable route, and calculates a relative angle between the currently traveling zone and the subsequently traveling zone to predict the visual-line movement destination of the user, and the display control step changes a display position for the predetermined information to a position corresponding to the predicted visual-line movement destination of the user based on the relative angle.

10. The information display method according to claim 9, wherein the prediction step specifies a road link of the currently traveling zone and a road link of the subsequently traveling zone from information on road links as line segments representing road zones, and calculates a relative angle between the road link of the currently traveling zone and the road link of the subsequently traveling zone.

11. The information display method according to claim 10, wherein the prediction step specifies the road link of the currently traveling zone on the basis of a current position, and specifies the road link of the subsequently traveling zone on the basis of a guide route to a destination.

12. The information display method according to claim 9, wherein a plurality of display areas are provided for different visual-line movement destinations of the user, and the display control step displays, on the basis of the relative angle, the predetermined information in one of the plurality of display areas, which corresponds to the predicted visual-line movement destination of the user.

13. The information display method according to claim 12, wherein the display control step displays the predetermined information in a display area corresponding to straight traveling when the relative angle is within a predetermined angle range in which visual-line movement to the right or left is relatively small, and displays the predetermined information in a display area other than the display area corresponding to the straight traveling when the relative angle exceeds the predetermined angle range.

14. The information display method according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined information contains driving support information for supporting driving and other information, and the display control step changes the display position of the driving support information on the basis of the prediction result while fixing a display position for the other information.