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Granted Patent B2
US 11,221,816 · App. 16/527,383 · Granted Jan 11, 2022

Display device for a vehicle

Inventors: Yoshinori Yamada (Nagakute, JP); Masaki Ito (Toyota, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 11,221,816
App. No.
16/527,383
Granted
Jan 11, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device for a vehicle includes a projection device that is provided on a vehicle cabin interior side of a front windshield glass in a vehicle, and displays information by projecting projection light so that this information appears superimposed on scenery visible in front of the vehicle, a display device that is provided in an instrument panel of the vehicle, and displays information towards a vehicle occupant seat side, and a display control unit that, of planned actions acquired from a self-driving control unit that controls self-driving of the vehicle, causes a planned action that is to be performed next after a vehicle action currently being performed to be displayed as a primary planned action by the projection device, and also causes planned actions that are to be performed subsequently to the primary planned action to be displayed as secondary planned actions.

Claims (14)

1. A display device for a vehicle, the display device comprising:

a projection device that is provided on a vehicle cabin interior side of a front windshield glass, in a vehicle that is capable of performing self-driving, and that displays information by projecting projection light that is used to display information onto the front windshield glass so that the information appears superimposed on scenery visible in front of the vehicle;

a display device that is provided in an instrument panel of the vehicle, and that displays information towards a vehicle occupant seat side; and

a display control unit that, among planned actions acquired from a self-driving control unit that controls self-driving of the vehicle that is capable of performing self-driving, causes a planned action, that is to be performed next after a vehicle action currently being performed, to be displayed as a primary planned action by the projection device, and also causes planned actions, that are to be performed subsequently to the primary planned action, to be displayed as secondary planned actions in a sequence in which these actions are to be performed starting from a position on the display device that is closest to the projection device.

2. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the secondary planned actions are displayed on a meter panel.

3. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein,

once execution of the primary planned action displayed by the projection device has been completed, a planned action that is to be performed soonest among the secondary planned actions displayed on the display device is moved up to a position of the primary planned action and is displayed by the projection device.

4. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the primary planned action and the secondary planned actions are displayed so as to be arranged in a substantially rectilinear row when viewed from the side of the vehicle occupant seat.

5. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the secondary planned actions are displayed so as to be arranged in a row extending towards an outer side in a vehicle width direction and towards a vehicle lower side relative to the primary planned action when viewed from the side of the vehicle occupant seat.

6. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

when a vehicle occupant performs an operation so as to insert an arbitrary planned action while the vehicle is performing self-driving, the arbitrary planned action can be displayed so as to be inserted as either the primary planned action or as any one of the secondary planned actions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 31, 2019
From: YAMADA, YOSHINORI; ITO, MASAKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 049919/0568 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-145743 · Aug 2, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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