Vehicle information transmitting device

• US 9,583,002 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2011
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hatakeyama, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Hongmin
• Application Number:
  US14/365,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20150002285A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,903 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/165 Videos and animations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/166 Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/167 Vehicle dynamics information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/176 Camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/178 Warnings
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/188 Displaying information using colour changes
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/191 Highlight information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/652 Crash protection features
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• 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: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/008 for anti-collision purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/165 for passive traffic, e.g. including static obstacles, trees
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes

Abstract

To provide a vehicle information transmitting device capable of transmitting information associated with danger at a periphery of the own vehicle in a manner intuitively understandable by the driver. In the present embodiment, when a dangerous direction is the left or the right, a display position of an own vehicle state display figure is changed from a display position in an initial state to a display position on the same side as the dangerous direction. If the dangerous direction is on the front, the display position of the own vehicle state display figure is changed from the display position in the initial state to a display position on an upper side. When a dangerous target is detected, a display area of the own vehicle state display figure is changed to a display area greater than the display area in the initial state.

Claims

1. A vehicle information transmitting device comprising:

a reference mark display unit configured to display a reference mark which is a reference indicating a safe state;

a danger display unit configured to display presence or absence of danger to an own vehicle with a relative position of a figure with respect to the reference mark, and

an avoiding behavior detecting unit configured to detect presence or absence of an avoiding behavior corresponding to the danger, at the time the danger is present, wherein

the danger display unit displays a direction in which the danger is present with the relative position of the figure with respect to the reference mark, at the time danger is present,

the danger display unit displays the figure at a position of the reference mark, at the time danger is absent, and

the danger display unit displays presence of an avoiding behavior, at a time the avoiding behavior is present.

2. The vehicle information transmitting device according to claim 1, wherein

at the time danger is present, the danger display unit changes a size of a display area of the figure greater than a size thereof at the time danger is absent.

3. The vehicle information transmitting device according to claim 1, wherein

the danger display unit emphasizes the display that the danger is present, at the time the avoiding behavior detecting unit detects that the avoiding behavior is absent.

4. The vehicle information transmitting device according to claim 1, wherein

the danger display unit differentiates the display that the avoiding behavior is present according to presence or absence of another danger different from the danger.

5. The vehicle information transmitting device according to claim 2, wherein

the danger display unit emphasizes the display that the danger is present, at the time the avoiding behavior detecting unit detects that the avoiding behavior is absent.