Display control device for a vehicle, display method, program, and display system for a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12344094-B2
Application number	US-202418731990-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2024
Priority date	Aug 31, 2020
Publication date	Jul 1, 2025
Grant date	Jul 1, 2025

Abstract

A display control device for a vehicle includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to display an object display and a lane display at a display section provided in a cabin of the vehicle. The object display depicts an object located in front of the vehicle, the lane display depicts a lane extending in front of the vehicle, and the object display and lane display are each displayed as a view thereof from the side of the object at which the vehicle is disposed. The processor is also configured to, in accordance with a distance between the object and the vehicle, alter a display ratio of the object display relative to a width of the lane display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display control device for a vehicle, the display control device comprising a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to:
display an object display and a lane display at a display section provided in a cabin of the vehicle, the object display depicting an object located in front of the vehicle, the lane display depicting a lane extending in front of the vehicle, and the object display and the lane display each being displayed as a view thereof from a side of the object at which the vehicle is disposed,
change a display position of the object display along the lane display according to a distance between the object and the vehicle so that the display position of the object display moves toward an upper end of the lane display as the distance between the object and the vehicle increases,
when the vehicle is not conducting a lane change or lane change preparation, change a size of the object display as the distance between the object and the vehicle changes and as the display position of the object display along the lane display changes, so that a display ratio of the object display relative to a width of the lane display at the display position of the object display increases as the distance between the object and the vehicle increases so that as the distance between the object and the vehicle increases, the object display occupies a larger percentage of the width of the lane display, and
when the vehicle is conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, fix the display ratio of the object display relative to the width of the lane display to a predetermined value regardless of the distance between the object and the vehicle.

2. The display control device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the vehicle is not conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, the processor is configured to lower the display ratio of the object display relative to the width of the lane display as the distance between the object and the vehicle decreases when the distance between the object and the vehicle is less than a first distance.

3. The display control device according to claim 2 , wherein, when the vehicle is not conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, the processor is configured to fix the display ratio of the object display relative to the width of the lane display when the distance between the object and the vehicle is at least the first distance and less than a second distance, the second distance being longer than the first distance.

4. The display control device according to claim 3 , wherein, when the vehicle is not conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, the processor is configured to, when the distance between the object and the vehicle is at least the first distance and less than the second distance, raise a transparency level of the object display in association with increasing of the distance between the object and the vehicle.

5. The display control device according to claim 3 , wherein, when the vehicle is not conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, the processor is configured to delete the object display from the display section when the distance between the object and the vehicle is at least the second distance.

6. The display control device according to claim 2 , wherein, when the vehicle is not conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, the processor is configured to, when the distance between the vehicle and the object is less than a third distance, the third distance being shorter than the first distance, raise the display ratio of the object display relative to the width of the lane display as the distance between the object and the vehicle decreases.

7. The display control device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the vehicle is not conducting the lane change or the lane change preparation, the processor is configured to lower the display ratio of the object display relative to the width of the lane display as the distance between the object and the vehicle decreases so that the object display is displayed at the display section inside the lane display at a position that does not overlap with the lane display.

8. The display control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to display the object display, at the display section, superposed with a route display that displays an intended running route of the vehicle.

9. The display control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
display a front end display at a lower portion of a display region of the display section, the front end display depicting a position of a front end portion of the vehicle, and
display the lane display and the object display at a vehicle upper side of the front end display.

10. The display control device according to claim 1 , wherein the display section is provided to a vehicle front side of a driver seat of the vehicle, and the display section is a projection screen at a vehicle upper side of an instrument panel of the vehicle, the projection screen being projected onto by a head-up display device.

11. A display system for a vehicle, the display system comprising:
the display control device according to claim 1 ; and
a display device including the display section.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takabatake Satoaki
• Kimura Koji
• Miyazaki Junji
• Ogata Ryo
• Yoshida Yuki
• Morishita Tadashi

Classifications

• B60K35/23

  Head-up displays [HUD] (optical aspects of head-up displays G02B27/01) · CPC title

• B60K35/22

  Display screens · CPC title

• B60K35/231

  characterised by their arrangement or structure for integration into vehicles · CPC title

• B60K35/60

  Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles (arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10) · CPC title

• B60K35/81

  for controlling displays · CPC title