On-vehicle display device and display method adopted in on-vehicle display device

• US 8,327,291 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Issued: 12/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Oguchi, Junko
• Primary Examiner(s): Pesin, Boris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hur, Ece
• Application Number:
  US11/819,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20080052627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,985 Days
• Field of Search: 715/790, 715/851, 348/E5.047, 348/E5.099, 348/E5.105, 345/173, 701/11
• US Class Current: 715/790
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/736 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/739 the user being the passenger
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/654 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/656 the user being a passenger
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/265 constructional aspects of navigation devices, e.g. housings, mountings, displays G01C21/3688 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• 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: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/007 Use of pixel shift techniques, e.g. by mechanical shift of the physical pixels or by optical shift of the perceived pixels

Abstract

An on-vehicle display device includes: an image generation unit that generates a first image that can be viewed from a driver'"'"'s seat side and a second image that can be viewed from a passenger'"'"'s seat side; and a display monitor at which the first image and the second image are displayed within a screen, and the image generation unit does not include an image of an icon or a button, operation of which by a driver is restricted, in the first image, includes the image of the icon or the button in the second image, and constantly changes a display position of the icon or the button in the second image.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle navigation device, comprising:

an image generation unit that generates a first image that can be viewed from a driver'"'"'s seat side and a second image that can be viewed from a passenger'"'"'s seat side;

a display monitor at which the first image and the second image are displayed within a screen; and

a decision unit that makes a decision whether a vehicle is in a stationary state or in a traveling state, wherein;

the image generation unit includes;

a first image generation unit that generates a map image,

a second image generation unit that is provided separately from the first image generation unit and generates an image of an icon or a button, and

a superimposing unit that is configured to superimpose the image of the icon or the button generated by the second image generation unit over the map image generated by the first image generation unit,

the second image generation unit generates an image of a restricted icon or a restricted button, wherein the operation of the restricted icon or the restricted button by the driver is restricted while the vehicle is in the traveling state,

when the decision unit makes a decision that the vehicle is in the traveling state, the superimposing unit outputs the map image generated by the first image generation unit as the first image without superimposing the image of the restricted icon or the restricted button generated by the second image generation unit, and outputs the map image generated by the first image generation unit as the second image with superimposing the image of the restricted icon or the restricted button generated by the second image generation unit while a display position of the restricted icon or the restricted button is constantly changed in the second image,

when the decision unit makes a decision that the vehicle is in the stationary state, the superimposing unit outputs the map image generated by the first image generation unit as the first image and the second image with superimposing the image of the restricted icon or the restricted button generated by the second image generation unit while a display position of the restricted icon or the restricted button is not constantly changed in the first image or the second image.

2. An on-vehicle navigation device according to claim 1, wherein:

when the vehicle is in the traveling state, the second image generation unit changes the display position of the restricted icon or the restricted button randomly.

3. An on-vehicle navigation device according to claim 1, wherein:

the restricted icon or the restricted button is a menu button operated to display a menu screen.

4. An on-vehicle navigation device according to claim 1, wherein:

the superimposing unit outputs the map image generated by the first image generation unit as the first image and the second image with superimposing an image of an unrestricted icon or an unrestricted button, which is generated by the second image generation unit such that the operation of the unrestricted icon or the unrestricted button by the driver is not restricted.

5. An on-vehicle navigation device according to claim 4, wherein:

the restricted icon or the restricted button is a menu button operated to display a menu screen and the unrestricted icon or the unrestricted button is a button to be operated to indicate a wide area or detailed setting for the map image.

6. An on-vehicle navigation device according to claim 1, wherein:

a touch panel that forms a touch switch by interlocking with a displayed icon or a displayed button is disposed over a display screen at the display monitor.

7. An on-vehicle navigation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detection unit that is configured to detect whether or not a hand of a user has moved close to the navigation device;

wherein;

when the detection unit fails to detect that a hand of a user has moved close to the navigation device even if the decision unit makes a decision that the vehicle is in the traveling state, the superimposing unit outputs the map image generated by the first image generation unit as the second image without superimposing the image of the restricted icon or the restricted button generated by the second image generation unit and when the detection unit detects that a hand of a user has moved close to the navigation device and the decision unit makes a decision that the vehicle is in the traveling state, the superimposing unit outputs the map image generated by the first image generation unit as the second image with superimposing the image of the restricted icon or the restricted button generated by the second image generation unit.