IN-VEHICLE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM

• US 20170050569A1
• Filed: 11/08/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KUWABARA, TAKASHI, AKAHORI, HITOAKI, MORISHITA, KAZUHIRO, SUENAGA, TERUMITSU
• Application Number:
  US15/346,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20170050569A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/088 using a cell of electrically changeable optical characteristic, e.g. liquid-crystal or electrochromic mirrors
• 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 2001/1215 with information displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1253 with cameras, video cameras or video screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/207 using multi-purpose displays, e.g. camera image and navigation or video on same display
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8046 for replacing a rear-view mirror system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

An in-vehicle display apparatus has a display unit mounted on a mounting position of a rearview mirror in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle. The display unit includes an image displaying unit that displays an image taken by an imager mounted to the vehicle, and a half mirror disposed in front of the image displaying unit. The display unit changes an image to be displayed according to a lighting state of an interior lamp.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle display apparatus comprising a display unit mounted on a mounting position of a rearview mirror in an interior of a vehicle, and includes:

an image displaying unit that displays an image taken by an imager mounted to the vehicle; and

a half mirror disposed in front of the image displaying unit,

wherein the display unit changes an image to be displayed according to a lighting state of an interior lamp.

2. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit changes the image to be displayed from an image display provided by the half mirror to a display provided by the image displaying unit, when the interior lamp is turned on.

3. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display unit changes the image to be displayed from the display provided by the image displaying unit to the display provided by the half mirror, when the interior lamp is turned off.

4. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit changes the image to be displayed from a display provided by the image displaying unit to a display provided by the half mirror, when the interior lamp is turned off.

5. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit changes an image to be displayed by the image displaying unit depending on whether the interior lamp is on or off.

6. An in-vehicle display apparatus comprising:

a display unit which is mounted on a mounting position of a rearview mirror in an interior of a vehicle, and includes an image displaying unit that displays an image taken by an imager mounted to the vehicle, and a half mirror disposed in front of the image displaying unit; and

a controller that controls the display unit based on a lighting state of an interior lamp,

wherein the controller causes the display unit to change an image to be displayed by the display unit according to the lighting state of the interior lamp.

7. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the controller causes the display unit to change a display on the display unit from a display provided by the half mirror to a display provided by the image displaying unit, when the interior lamp is turned on.

8. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the controller causes the display unit to change the display on the display unit from the display provided by the image displaying unit to the display provided by the half mirror, when the interior lamp is turned off.

9. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the controller causes the display unit to change a display on the display unit from a display provided by the image displaying unit to a display provided by the half mirror, when the interior lamp is turned off.

10. The in-vehicle display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the controller causes the display unit to change an image to be displayed by the image displaying unit depending on whether the interior lamp is on or off.

11. A control method for controlling an in-vehicle display apparatus having a display unit which is mounted on a mounting position of a rearview mirror in an interior of a vehicle, and includes:

an image displaying unit that displays an image taken by an imager mounted to the vehicle; and

a half mirror disposed in front of the image displaying unit, the control method comprising;

detecting a lighting state of an interior lamp; and

changing an image to be displayed by the display unit according to the lighting state of the interior lamp.

12. The control method according to claim 11,

wherein the changing an image to be displayed by the display unit according to the lighting state of the interior lamp comprises:

changing a display on the display unit from a display provided by the image displaying unit to a display provided by the half mirror, when the interior lamp is turned off; and

changing the display on the display unit from a display provided by the half mirror to a display provided by the image displaying unit, when the interior lamp is turned on.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium recording a program for causing a computer to execute the control method according to claim 11.