Automotive display device, vehicle, and display method with 3-D perspective image

• US 8,331,622 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2005
• Issued: 12/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Itoh, Megumi, Takahashi, Toshiya, Ota, Shinichirou, Miake, Aki, Yamamoto, Takeshi, Kikuchi, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Park, Chan S
• Assistant Examiner(s): YEH, EUENG NAN
• Application Number:
  US11/570,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20080258897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,745 Days
• Field of Search: 382/104, 382/277, 340/461, 340/905, 701/436
• US Class Current: 382/104
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/211 producing three-dimensional [3D] effects, e.g. stereoscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3635 Guidance using 3D or perspective road maps

Abstract

An automotive display device, which allows the user to easily recognize the sameness of an information image even if the shape of the image is changed, is realized. An automotive display device (1) includes a display section (13) for displaying a vehicle information image including information regarding a vehicle. The vehicle information image is a 3-D image. The automotive display device (1) further includes an image processing section (113) for generating a vehicle information image seen from a fixed viewpoint, an image display processing section (114) for displaying the vehicle information image on the display section (13), and an ETC information detection section (21) that detects a driving condition of the vehicle. The image processing section (113) rotates the vehicle information image around a predetermined axis and for a predetermined angle, in accordance with ETC information obtained by the ETC information detecting section (21).

Claims

1. An automotive display device which is provided in vehicle and includes a display section arranged to display a vehicle information image including information in regard to the vehicle, the display vehicle information image being generated based on at least one first vehicle information image, the automotive display device comprising:

an image generating section arranged to generate a second vehicle information image by, when necessary, rotating said at least one first vehicle information for a predetermined angle around a predetermined rotation axis, the display section being arranged to display additional information along with the second vehicle information image, the additional information being information that was not previously shown together with the at least one first vehicle information image;

an image display processing section that displays the second vehicle information image on the display section; and

a vehicle driving condition detection section that is arranged to detect a driving condition of the vehicle;

wherein

the image generating section is arranged to rotate said at least one first vehicle information image to generate said second vehicle information image in accordance with a determination of a type of road on which the vehicle travels that is performed by a vehicle driving condition information portion, the type of road being detected by the vehicle driving condition detection section; and

the additional information is contained in an additional information area and is generated in the display section by rotating and shrinking the at least one first vehicle information image.

2. A display method in an automotive display device which is provided in a vehicle and includes a display section arranged to display a vehicle information image including information in regard to the vehicle, the display vehicle information image being generated based on at least one first vehicle information image, the display method comprising the steps of:

detecting a driving condition of a vehicle;

generating a second vehicle information image by, when necessary, rotating the at least one first vehicle information image for a predetermined angle around a predetermined rotation axis, in accordance with the driving condition of the vehicle which is detected via the step of detecting a driving condition of a vehicle, the display section displaying additional information along with the second vehicle information image, the additional information being information that was not previously shown together with the at least one first vehicle information image; and

displaying the second vehicle information image on the display section;

wherein

said at least one first vehicle information image is rotated via the step of generating a second vehicle information image in accordance with a determination of a type of road on which the vehicle travels that is performed by a vehicle driving condition information portion, the type of road being detected through the step of detecting a driving condition of the vehicle; and

the additional information is contained in an additional information area and is generated in the display section by rotating and shrinking the at least one first vehicle information image.