Monitor position adjustment device

• US 8,364,352 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Mimura, Yoshitaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Perungavoor, Sath V
• Assistant Examiner(s): AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B
• Application Number:
  US12/575,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20100087951A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,210 Days
• Field of Search: 340/461, 348/837, 348/148, 701/32.3, 701/49, 701/1, 701/36, 700/213
• US Class Current: 701/49
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0229 for displays, e.g. cathodic tubes
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0092 with motorization

Abstract

A monitor position adjustment device comprises: a backseat monitor which is provided at a backward position of a front seat in a vehicle such that an angle of a screen thereof is electrically adjusted toward a backseat; an angle detection unit configured to detect the angle of the backseat monitor; an operation input unit which is provided at a position where an operation by an operator on the front seat can be performed, and on which the angle of the backseat monitor after screen change can be input; a front seat display which is provided in front of the front seat and includes a screen toward the front seat; and a processing unit configured to perform display control of the front seat display based on a detection result of the angle detection unit, wherein the processing unit controls the front seat display to display current angle information of the backseat monitor.

Claims

1. A monitor and monitor position adjustment device comprising:

a backseat monitor which is provided at a backward position from a front seat in a vehicle such that an angle of a screen thereof is selectively and electrically adjusted toward a backseat;

an angle detection unit configured to detect the angle of the backseat monitor;

an operation input unit which is provided at a position where an operation by an operator on the front seat can be performed, and by which the angle of the backseat monitor after screen change can be input;

a front seat display which is provided in front of the front seat and includes a screen toward the front seat; and

a processing unit configured to perform display control of the front seat display based on a detection result of the angle detection unit, wherein the processing unit controls the front seat display to display current angle information of the backseat monitor.

2. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit controls the front seat display to display angle information of the backseat monitor after change based on an input result of the operation input unit.

3. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 2, wherein the current angle information of the backseat monitor, and the angle information of the backseat monitor after change are displayed with different indicators adjacent to each other.

4. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit controls the front seat display to display range information indicating a visible range of the backseat monitor after change.

5. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit controls the front seat display to display backseat passenger indication.

6. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 5, wherein the operation input unit is configured to input a sitting condition of the passenger on the backseat and changes the passenger indication on the front seat display based on the input sifting condition.

7. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 5, further comprising a passenger detection unit configured to detect a passenger on the backseat, wherein the passenger indication on the front seat display is changed based on an output result of the passenger detection unit.

8. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 1, further comprising an abnormality processing unit configured to halt the operation to change the angle of the backseat monitor when an operation to change the angle of the backseat monitor is made by the operation input unit, if the current angle does not become the angle after change even though a predetermined time has elapsed.

9. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 8, wherein the abnormality processing unit is configured to halt a first angle change of the backseat monitor and to execute a second angle change of the backseat monitor in a direction opposite to an operation input for the first angle change.

10. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 8, wherein the abnormality processing unit is configured to limit an operation input related to angle change of the backseat monitor.

11. The monitor and monitor position adjustment device according to claim 1, further comprising an abnormality processing unit configured to display an abnormality indication on the front seat display when an operation to change the angle of the backseat monitor is made by the operation input unit, if the current angle does not become the angle after change even though a predetermined time has elapsed.