On-vehicle display device and on-vehicle display program

• US 9,199,536 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2008
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Murano, Takahiko, Toyofuku, Kunihiko, Inomata, Makoto, Niwa, Masaaki, Aoki, Naoyuki, Tottori, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELAI, NAOD W
• Application Number:
  US12/675,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20100208072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,651 Days
• Field of Search: 348/148, 345/619, 345/661
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/152 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/106 using night vision cameras
• 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 2300/302 combining image information with GPS information or vehicle data, e.g. vehicle speed, gyro, steering angle data
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/306 using a re-scaling of images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8053 for bad weather conditions or night vision
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/84 Data processing systems or methods, management, administration

Abstract

An on-vehicle display device 1 displays a video around a vehicle and travel information of the vehicle on a single display unit 20. The on-vehicle display device 1 includes video display enable/disable input units 11, 12, 13, and 14 inputting display enable/disable of the video around the vehicle, display modification units 30 and 40 modifying the display size of each of a video display section and a travel information display section on the basis of the input video display enable/disable, and an input prediction unit 30 predicting input of display enable/disable of the video around the vehicle. Even when video display disable is input from a video display enable/disable input unit, if the input prediction unit 30 predicts input of video display enable, the display modification units 30 and 40 do not modify the display size of each of the video display section and the travel information display section.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle display device comprising:

a display unit including a screen;

an imaging unit capturing surroundings of a vehicle using an infrared ray at nighttime; and

control unit configured to;

display a travel information area displaying travel information of the vehicle on the screen in a normal size and not display a video area displaying video captured by the imaging unit on the screen when a headlamp is in OFF or a gear is in R; and

display the travel information area set to a smaller size than the normal size and the video area set to a predetermined size when the headlamp is in ON and the gear is in a position other than the R,

wherein when the headlamp is turned to OFF while the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed, the control unit;

maintains, for a predetermined time, the size of both the video area and the travel information area displayed when the headlamp was in ON or the gear was in the position other than the R, or

suppresses, for the predetermined time a degree of modification of the size of both the video area and the travel information area.

2. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit displays a black image or an image other than the black image on the video area when the headlamp is turned to OFF when the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed.

3. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit is a meter display or a display for navigation.

4. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 2,

wherein the display unit is a meter display or a display for navigation.

6. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1,

wherein control unit displays a black image on the screen when the headlamp is turned to OFF while the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed.

7. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1,

wherein setting the size of the travel information area to the smaller size than the normal size includes continuing to display the travel information of the vehicle in the travel information area of the smaller size.

8. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1, further comprising an input device configured to input a driver operation for displaying the video area, wherein

in the case that the control unit receives the driver operation from the input device, the control unit displays the travel information area in the normal size and does not display the video area when the headlamp is in OFF or the gear is in the R,

in the case that the control unit receives the driver operation from the input device, the control unit displays the travel information area set to the smaller size than the normal size and the video area set to the predetermined size when the headlamp is in ON and the gear is in the position other than the R, and

in the case that the control unit receives the driver operation from the input device, when the headlamp is turned to OFF while the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed, the control unit:

maintains, for the predetermined time, the size of both the video area and the travel information area displayed when the headlamp was in ON or the gear was in the position other than the R, or

suppresses, for the predetermined time, the degree of modification of the size of both the video area and the travel information area.

9. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1, further comprising an illuminance sensor configured to detect illuminance of the vehicle exterior, wherein

the control unit determines whether the illuminance is smaller than a predetermined value or not,

in the case that the illuminance is not smaller than the predetermined value, the control unit displays the travel information area in the normal size and does not display the video area when the headlamp is in OFF or the gear is in the R,

in the case that the illuminance is not smaller than the predetermined value, the control unit displays the travel information area set to the smaller size than the normal size and the video area set to the predetermined size when the headlamp is in ON and the gear is in the position other than the R, and

in the case that the illuminance is not smaller than the predetermined value, when the headlamp is turned to OFF while the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed, the control unit:

maintains, for the predetermined time, the size of both the video area and the travel information area displayed when the headlamp was in ON or the gear was in the position other than the R, or

suppresses, for the predetermined time, the degree of modification of the size of both the video area and the travel information area.

10. The on-vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit displays an image associated with OFF of the headlamp or the R of the gear in the video area for the predetermined time when the headlamp is turned to OFF while the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed, and

the control unit displays the video captured by the imaging unit in the video area when the headlamp is turned to ON while the image is displayed in the video area or when the gear is shifted into the position other than the R while the image is displayed in the video area.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an on-vehicle display program for displaying, on a display unit including a screen mounted on a vehicle, a video around the vehicle imaged by an imaging unit and travel information of the vehicle, the on-vehicle display program causing a computer to implement:

a control unit configured to;

display a travel information area displaying travel information of the vehicle on the screen in a normal size and not display a video area displaying the video imaged by the imaging unit on the screen when a headlamp is in OFF or a gear is in R; and

display the travel information area set to a smaller size than the normal size and the video area set to a predetermined size when the headlamp is in ON and the gear is in a position other than the R,

wherein, when the headlamp is turned to OFF while the video area is displayed or when the gear is shifted into the R while the video area is displayed, the control unit;

maintains, for a predetermined time, the size of both the video area and the travel information area displayed when the headlamp was in ON or the gear was in the position other than the R, or

suppresses, for the predetermined time, a degree of modification of the size of both the video area and the travel information area.