DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE

• US 20160004367A1
• Filed: 07/01/2015
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Shimada, Masahiko
• Application Number:
  US14/789,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20160004367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/126 Rotatable input devices for instruments
• 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: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A vehicle display apparatus includes a ring dial rotatable about an axis perpendicular to a surface of a steering wheel, a first rotation angle detector configured to detect rotation of the ring dial, a capacitive electrode disposed radially outside the ring dial so as to surround the ring dial and configured to detect at least a user'"'"'s touch, and a display panel configured to cause transition of a screen in response to detection of rotation of the ring dial by the first rotation angle detector and detection of the user'"'"'s touch by the capacitive electrode.

Claims

1. A display apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

a ring-shaped member rotatable about an axis perpendicular to an installation surface in which the ring-shaped member is disposed;

a rotation detector configured to detect the rotation of the ring-shaped member;

a touch detector disposed in a region radially outside the ring-shaped member and adjacent to the ring-shaped member, the touch detector being configured to detect at least a user'"'"'s touch to the touch detector; and

a display configured to cause transition of screen contents on a screen in response to the detection of the rotation of the ring-shaped member by the rotation detector during the detection of the user'"'"'s touch by the touch detector.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a steering wheel or a center console, wherein the installation surface is a surface of the steering wheel or the center console.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ring-shaped member has a top surface and a chamfered surface at an outer circumferential edge of the ring-shaped member such that the chamfered surface has an inclined slope from the top surface.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the touch detector detects only the user'"'"'s touch.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display displays a plurality of selection menus on the screen corresponding to a plurality of hierarchy levels of the screen contents,

wherein the touch detector includes a capacitive electrode to detect the user'"'"'s touch, and

wherein the capacitive electrode comprises a plurality of capacitive electrode segments corresponding to the hierarchy levels such that one of the capacitive electrode segments can selectively be touched by the user to cause the transition of the screen contents in the corresponding selection menu.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a plurality of covering portions each partly covering the touch detector to partition the touch detector into a plurality of detection regions corresponding to the plurality of capacitive electrode segments.