IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY UNIT

• US 20160288717A1
• Filed: 03/17/2014
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Kameshima, Tamotsu, Higo, Takayuki, Hashimoto, Yoshikuni, Kajigai, Naoki
• Granted Patent: US 10,112,539 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/00 Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/12 Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/26 to the rear of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1253 with cameras, video cameras or video screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/202 displaying a blind spot scene on the vehicle part responsible for the blind spot
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/303 using joined images, e.g. multiple camera images
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30268 Vehicle interior
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/73 using feature-based methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

An image display control apparatus according to an embodiment includes, as an example, an image generation portion generating an output image which resembles a map of a room mirror using at least a vehicle outside image based on at least one of a detection result of an eye point position acquisition portion detecting a position of an eye point of a driver and a detection result of an angle acquisition portion detecting an angle of a display device, and a display control portion controlling the display device so that the display device displays the output image generated by the image generation portion. Accordingly, in the present embodiment, as an example, the output image similar to the map of the room mirror may be displayed at the display device.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. An image display control apparatus comprising:

an image generation portion generating an output image which resembles a map of a room mirror using at least a vehicle outside image based on at least one of a detection result of an eye point position acquisition portion detecting a position of an eye point of a driver and a detection result of an angle acquisition portion detecting an angle of a display device; and

a display control portion controlling the display device so that the display device displays the output image generated by the image generation portion,

the image generation portion specifying a portion of the vehicle outside image that is generated to be the output image.

13. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, comprising an imaging range control portion controlling an imaging portion that captures the vehicle outside image so that an imaging range of the imaging portion is changed on a basis of at least one of the detection result of the eye point position acquisition portion detecting the position of the eye point of the driver and the detection result of the angle acquisition portion detecting the angle of the display device.

14. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the image generation portion changes a size of an image of an object included in the output image depending on a position of the object detected by an object detection portion detecting the object at a vehicle exterior.

15. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

a display screen of the display device is covered by a half mirror,

the display control portion controls the display device so that the display device displays the output image with a luminance with which the half mirror is in a fully transmissive state.

16. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

a display screen of the display device is covered by a half mirror,

the image generation portion generates the output image indicating a scene of a vehicle exterior,

the display control portion controls the display device so that the display device displays the output image with a luminance with which the half mirror is in a half transmissive state.

17. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising

a luminance change portion increasing a luminance of the display device or a luminance value of the output image in association with an increase of a brightness at a vehicle interior detected by a brightness detection portion detecting the brightness at the vehicle interior within a range where a transmission state at a half mirror is maintained in at least one of a fully transmissive state and a half transmissive state, wherein a display screen of the display device is covered by the half mirror.

18. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

a display screen of the display device is covered by a half mirror,

the image generation portion generates the output image corresponding to a region of a window of a vehicle within a map of the half mirror.

19. The image display control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

a display screen of the display device is covered by a half mirror,

the display control portion is configured to control the display device so that at least a fully transmissive state of the half mirror and a half transmissive state of the half mirror are switchable.

20. An image display system comprising:

an image display control apparatus including;

an image generation portion generating an output image which resembles a map of a room mirror using at least a vehicle outside image based on at least one of a detection result of an eye point position acquisition portion detecting a position of an eye point of a driver and a detection result of an angle acquisition portion detecting an angle of a display device; and

a display control portion controlling the display device so that the display device displays the output image generated by the image generation portion,

the image generation portion specifying a portion of the vehicle outside image that is generated to be the output image, and

an imaging portion capturing a scene at a vehicle interior or a vehicle exterior.

21. A display unit comprising:

a display device included in an image display control apparatus including;

an image generation portion generating an output image which resembles a map of a room mirror using at least a vehicle outside image based on at least one of a detection result of an eye point position acquisition portion detecting a position of an eye point of a driver and a detection result of an angle acquisition portion detecting an angle of a display device; and

a display control portion controlling the display device so that the display device displays the output image generated by the image generation portion,

the image generation portion specifying a portion of the vehicle outside image that is generated to be the output image, and

a half mirror covering a display screen of the display device.