Vehicle display apparatus

• US 9,262,925 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Murayama, Hisashi, Nagumo, Megumi
• Primary Examiner(s): MULLEN, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US14/478,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20150070157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 340/435, 345/7, 345/9, 348/115, 701/301
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/166 Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/176 Camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/177 Augmented reality
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/31 Virtual images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/347 Optical elements for superposition of display information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/693 Cover plate features
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1529 Head-up displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/166 Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/176 Camera images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/177 Augmented reality
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/31 Virtual images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/347 Optical elements for superposition of display information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/693 Cover plate features
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/23 Head-up displays [HUD] optical aspects of head-up displays G02B27/01
• 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: G08G 1/167 Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection

Abstract

A vehicle display apparatus includes a plurality of display devices that superpose and display a plurality of pieces of information by displaying information at each position of a plurality of different positions in a predetermined direction towards the front of a vehicle that can be viewed by a driver of the vehicle, and includes as at least one of the plurality of display devices, an attention attracting display device that displays as the information, attention attracting information on the nearest side to the driver in the predetermined direction.

Claims

1. A vehicle display apparatus

comprising a plurality of display devices that superpose and display a plurality of pieces of information by displaying information at each position of a plurality of different positions in a predetermined direction towards the front of a vehicle that can be viewed by a driver of the vehicle,

and comprising as at least one of the plurality of display devices, an attention attracting display device that displays as the information, attention attracting information on the nearest side to the driver in the predetermined direction.

2. The vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1,

comprising as any one of the plurality of display devices, a captured image display device that displays as the information, a captured image output from an image pickup device that captures an image of the surroundings of the vehicle,

and the attention attracting display device displays the attention attracting information which attracts attention with respect to an obstacle of the vehicle present in the captured image displayed by the captured image display device.

3. The vehicle display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the attention attracting display device displays as the attention attracting information, a frame image that is visible by the driver so as to surround the obstacle of the vehicle, and changes the size and position of the frame image according to the size and position of the obstacle of the vehicle in the captured image.