Display control device and information display device

• US 10,417,993 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2014
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Mori, Yoshihiko, Mizuguchi, Takehisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Badii, Behrang
• Assistant Examiner(s): Greene, Daniel L
• Application Number:
  US15/518,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20170309248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,770 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/178 Warnings
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/191 Highlight information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• 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: B62D 15/0295 by overlaying a vehicle path based on present steering angle over an image without processing that image
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/02 characterised by the way in which colour is displayed details of colour display specific for CRTs G09G1/28; specific for flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/36 characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory

Abstract

A display control device and an information display device will be provided which help, when a vehicle'"'"'s abnormality is detected, the driver readily recognize the image corresponding to the vehicle'"'"'s abnormal information item and accurately understand the content of the abnormality. A display control device 1 according to the present invention, which is to be mounted on a vehicle to control display of a display unit 6, includes a communication unit 3 to acquire multiple vehicle information items, a detection unit 4 to detect an abnormality of the vehicle from at least one of the multiple vehicle information items acquired by the communication unit 3, and a display control unit 5 to display on the display unit 6, multiple images each corresponding to one of the multiple vehicle information items, wherein, when an abnormality of the vehicle is detected by the detection unit 4, the display control unit 5 magnifies, from among the multiple images, an image corresponding to the at least one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, to be displayed on the display unit 6.

Claims

1. A display control device to be mounted on a vehicle to control display of a display unit, the device comprising:

a communication unit to acquire multiple vehicle information items;

a detection unit to detect an abnormality of the vehicle from one of the multiple vehicle information items acquired by the communication unit; and

a display control unit to display on the display unit, multiple images having a one to one correspondence with the multiple vehicle information items,

wherein, when an abnormality of the vehicle which is stopped is detected by the detection unit, the display control unit magnifies, from among the displayed multiple images, the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, according to a magnification ratio of the particular image for a stopped state, to be displayed on the display unit to replace displaying of the particular image with displaying of the magnified image,

wherein, when an abnormality of the vehicle which is running is detected by the detection unit, the display control unit magnifies, from among the displayed multiple images, the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, according to a magnification ratio of the particular image for a running state, to be displayed on the display unit to replace displaying of the particular image with displaying of the magnified image,

wherein, the particular image'"'"'s magnification ratio for a running state is smaller than the particular image'"'"'s magnification ratio for a stopped state, the running state including running forward and running backward.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays, in a foreground, a portion of the magnified image overlapping an image corresponding to one of the multiple vehicle information items from which no abnormality is detected.

3. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit shrinks and displays, on the display unit, an image that is adjacent to the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, and that corresponds to one of the multiple vehicle information items from which no abnormality is detected.

4. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit moves and displays, on the display unit, an image around the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, in a predetermined direction and further away from the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected.

5. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit moves and displays, on the display unit, an image adjacent to the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, within a predetermined range and further away from the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected.

6. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit, after magnifying and displaying, on the display unit, the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, resizes the particular image to its original size to display on the display unit.

7. A display control device to be mounted on a vehicle to control display of a display unit, the device comprising:

a communication unit to acquire multiple vehicle information items;

a detection unit to detect an abnormality of the vehicle from one of the multiple vehicle information items acquired by the communication unit; and

a display control unit to display on the display unit, multiple images having a one to one correspondence with the multiple vehicle information items,

wherein, when an abnormality of the vehicle is detected by the detection unit, the display control unit magnifies, from among the displayed multiple images, the particular image corresponding to the one of the multiple vehicle information items from which the abnormality is detected, according to a predetermined magnification ratio associated with a significance level of the vehicle information item, to be displayed on the display unit to replace displaying of the particular image with displaying of the magnified image, and

wherein different ones of said multiple vehicle information items are associated with different significance levels which, in turn, are associated with different magnification ratios.