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HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY PROGRAM PRODUCT

  • US 20160152184A1
  • Filed: 06/03/2014
  • Published: 06/02/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2013
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A head-up display equipped to a vehicle comprising:

  • a front view information acquisition unit acquiring front view information indicative of an object existing on a road along which the vehicle travels;

    a virtual image display unit controlling lights, which are generated for displaying an object marker corresponding to the object indicated by the front view information acquired by the front view information acquisition unit, to be reflected on a windshield of the vehicle and displaying the object marker representing the object as a virtual image in front of the vehicle; and

    a size adjustment unit adjusting a size of the object marker displayed by the virtual image display unit when a position where the object exists is ahead of a position where the virtual image of the object marker is formed in a traveling direction of the vehicle, wherein the size adjustment unit adjusts the size of the object marker so that a length of the object marker in a width direction of the vehicle is at least equal to or longer than a display reference length, and the display reference length is defined as a length of a line segment that connects, along the width direction of the vehicle and passing through the position where the virtual image of the object marker is formed, a straight line connecting a right eye of a driver of the vehicle with the object and another straight line connecting a left eye of the driver with the object.

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