Vehicular Display Apparatus

• US 20170293370A1
• Filed: 03/15/2017
• Published: 10/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: HANAOKA, Kensuke, TANAKA, Seiichi, KATO, Yasutomo, FUKUDA, Shinya
• Granted Patent: US 10,318,118 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/111 for controlling multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/115 Selection of menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/111 for controlling multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/115 Selection of menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1442 Emulation of input devices
• 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 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0383 Signal control means within the pointing device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A vehicular display apparatus includes a display section, a pointing device, and a display control section. The display control section is configured to display an operation screen on the display section. The display control section is configured to generate an image that includes one of an object and an object group across a specified area on the operation screen, and execute processing of setting a part of the one of the object and the object group in a different display mode from the other part of the one of the object and the object group when the operation finger is recognized by a recognition section.

Claims

1. A vehicular display apparatus comprising:

a display section;

a pointing device that includes;

an operation section; and

a recognition section that recognizes an operation finger operating the operation section, and

a display control section that is configured to display an operation screen on the display section, the operation screen including a plurality of selection targets, a selection operation of which is able to be performed by using the pointing device, wherein

the display control section is configured to

generate at least one of an image in which a cursor for selecting one selection target from the plurality of selection targets is moved and an image in which the plurality of selection targets that are arranged along a specified axis on the operation screen are scrolled in accordance with a position of the operation finger, which is recognized by the recognition section, on the operation section,

generate an image that includes one of an object and an object group across a specified area on the operation screen, and

execute processing of setting a part of the one of the object and the object group in a different display mode from the other part of the one of the object and the object group when the operation finger is recognized by the recognition section.

2. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section is configured to generate an image in which the part in the different display mode of the one of the object and the object group is moved along a moving direction of the operation finger when the operation finger, which is recognized by the recognition section, is moved with respect to the operation section.

3. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section is configured to generate the operation screen by composing a foreground image that includes the plurality of selection targets and a background image that includes the one of the object and the object group.

4. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section is configured to determine the part of the one of the object and the object group based on a position on the operation screen, the position corresponding to a state signal from the pointing device.

5. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of selection targets are arranged in line in a first direction on the operation screen,

the one of the object and the object group is arranged along the first direction, and

the display control section is configured to generate an image in which the part of the one of the object and the object group is displaced in a second direction that crosses the first direction with respect to the other part of the one of the object and the object group when the operation finger is recognized by the recognition section.

6. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the part of the object group includes a plurality of grains, and

an amount of displacement of the plurality of grains in the second direction is reduced as the plurality of grains separate from a position on the operation screen in the first direction, the position corresponding to a state signal from the pointing device.

7. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the one of the object and the object group is arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space, and

the display control section is configured to generate an image in which the part of the one of the object and the object group is raised in a specified direction in the virtual three-dimensional space with respect to the other part of the one of the object and the object group when the operation finger is recognized by the recognition section.