Device and method for displaying information, radar apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9810769-B2
Application number	US-201213619342-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2012
Priority date	Sep 22, 2011
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

This disclosure provides an information display device, which includes a sensor signal acquirer for acquiring a sensor signal indicating a content detected by a sensor, a signal processor for performing first signal processing and second signal processing different from the first signal processing, on the sensor signal, and a display unit for displaying on a screen image, first information of the sensor signal after the first signal processing, and partial information of second information of the sensor signal after the second signal processing in a different display mode from the first information, the partial information being different from the first information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information display device, comprising:
a sensor signal acquirer configured to acquire a sensor signal detected by a sensor;
a signal processor configured to perform first signal processing on the sensor signal to generate first information, and configured to perform second signal processing, different from the first signal processing, on the sensor signal to generate second information, the first and second signal processing being different from each other in that a similar kind of signal processing is used in the first signal processing and the second signal processing, and parameters used in the first signal processing and the second signal processing are different from each other, with one of the parameters of the first and second signal processing being adjusted automatically, and the other parameter is adjusted based on a value set by an operator;
an image processor configured to combine the first information and a part of the second information that is different from the first information to create a sensor image; and
a display unit configured to display the sensor image on a screen image, such that the first information and the second information are displayed simultaneously with the second information being displayed in a different display mode from the first information.

2. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the first information is displayed with gradation in color, and the second information is displayed with no gradation in color.

3. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein a display color of the first information is different from a display color of the second information.

4. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the first signal processing corresponds to the second signal processing with additional processing.

5. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the similar kind of the signal processing is gain adjust processing.

6. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the similar kind of the signal processing is scan-to-scan correlation processing.

7. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein one of the parameters of the first and second signal processing is a value obtained by either one of increasing and reducing the other parameter by a predetermined amount.

8. A radar apparatus, comprising:
a radar antenna serving as a sensor;
a sensor signal acquirer configured to acquire a sensor signal detected by the sensor;
a signal processor configured to perform first signal processing on the sensor signal to generate first information, and configured to perform second signal processing, different from the first signal processing, on the sensor signal to generate second information, the first and second signal processing being different from each other in that a similar kind of signal processing is used in the first signal processing and the second signal processing, and parameters used in the first signal processing and the second signal processing are different from each other, with one of the parameters of the first and second signal processing being adjusted automatically, and the other parameter is adjusted based on a value set by an operator;
an image processor configured to combine the first information and a part of the second information that is different from the first information to create a sensor image; and
a display unit configured to display the sensor image on a screen image, such that the first information and the second information are displayed simultaneously with the second information being displayed in a different display mode from the first information.

9. A method of displaying information, comprising:
acquiring a sensor signal detected by a sensor;
performing first signal processing on the sensor signal to generate first information, and performing second signal processing, different from the first signal processing, on the sensor signal to generate second information, the first and second signal processing being different from each other in that a similar kind of signal processing is used in the first signal processing and the second signal processing, and parameters used in the first signal processing and the second signal processing are different from each other, with one of the parameters of the first and second signal processing being adjusted automatically, and the other parameter is adjusted based on a value set by an operator;
combining the first information and a part of the second information that is different from the first information to create a sensor image; and
displaying the sensor image on a screen image, such that the first information and the second information are displayed simultaneously with the second information being displayed in a different display mode from the first information.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first information is displayed with gradation in color, and the second information is displayed with no gradation in color.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein a display color of the first information is different from a display color of the second information.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the similar kind of the signal processing is gain adjust processing.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the similar kind of the signal processing is scan-to-scan correlation processing.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein one of the parameters of the first and second signal processing is a value obtained by either one of increasing and reducing the other parameter by a predetermined amount.

Assignees

• Kubota Yugo
• Furuno Electric Co

Inventors

• Kubota Yugo

Classifications

• G01S7/292

  Extracting wanted echo-signals · CPC title

• G01S7/14

  Sector, off-centre, or expanded angle display · CPC title

• G01S7/062 Primary

  in which different colours are used · CPC title