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US 10,960,761 · App. 16/622,096 · Granted Mar 30, 2021

Display system and display method

Inventors: Atsuki Tachibana (Tokyo, JP); Reiko Sakata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,960,761
App. No.
16/622,096
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle situation that can occur at a later time than the current time is displayed on a first display device, a second display device, and a third display device, and display content is controlled so that a display content of the second display device includes a vehicle situation that can occur at a later time than the vehicle situation displayed on the first display device, and a display content of the third display device includes a vehicle situation that can occur at a later time than the vehicle situation displayed on the second display device.

Claims (41)

1. A display system comprising:

a plurality of display devices provided in a vehicle interior;

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform processes of:

acquiring information inside and outside a vehicle;

estimating a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time from a current time on a basis of the acquired information;

displaying the estimated vehicle situation on a first display device and a second display device included in the plurality of display devices, and controlling display content in such a manner that display content of the second display device includes a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time with respect to the vehicle situation displayed on the first display device, and

displaying the estimated vehicle situation on a third display device included in the plurality of display devices, and controlling the display content in such a manner that display content of the third display device includes a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time with respect to the vehicle situation displayed on the second display device.

2. The display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first display device is provided at a position closer to a gaze of an occupant in a driver's seat while the vehicle is traveling than the second display device.

3. The display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second display device is provided at a position closer to a gaze of an occupant in a driver's seat while the vehicle is traveling than the third display device.

4. The display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content in such a manner that a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time is included on a basis of the acquired information.

5. The display system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor changes a display angle of view so as to include a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time.

6. The display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content in such a manner that, when the vehicle turns right or left, a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time in a direction in which the vehicle turns is included.

7. The display system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content in such a manner that a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time is included on a basis of acquired information about a vehicle state.

8. The display system according to claim 7 ,

wherein the information about the vehicle state includes at least one of a vehicle speed, an accelerator operation amount, a brake operation amount, and a set inter-vehicle distance.

9. The display system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content in such a manner that a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time is included on a basis of acquired information about an occupant in a driver's seat.

10. The display system according to claim 9 ,

wherein the information about the occupant in the driver's seat includes at least one of a degree of attention of the occupant in the driver's seat to front, a degree of experience of the occupant in the driver's seat in automatic driving, a psychological state of the occupant in the driver's seat, a degree of uneasiness of the occupant in the driver's seat, an age of the occupant in the driver's seat, and an eyesight or hearing of the occupant in the driver's seat.

11. The display system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content of the plurality of display devices on a basis of an acquired vehicle driving mode.

12. The display system according to claim 11 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content of the plurality of display devices in such a manner that, when the vehicle driving mode is a manual driving mode, a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time is included, compared with an automatic driving mode.

13. The display system according to claim 11 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content in such a manner that, at a timing at which the vehicle driving mode is switched from the automatic driving mode to the manual driving mode, a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time is included.

14. The display system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor controls the display content in such a manner that a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time is included on a basis of acquired information about a situation outside the vehicle.

15. The display system according to claim 14 ,

wherein the information about the situation outside the vehicle includes at least one of weather in a travel area of the vehicle, a friction coefficient of a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling, brightness of the travel area of the vehicle, a number of objects detected around the vehicle, visibility in the travel area of the vehicle, a number of objects expected to be in a view of an occupant in a driver's seat, a degree of congestion of a travel path of the vehicle, a speed limit of the travel path of the vehicle, and presence of an obstruction that obstructs the view in a traveling direction of the vehicle.

16. A display method comprising:

acquiring information inside and outside a vehicle;

estimating a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time from a current time on a basis of the acquired information;

displaying the estimated vehicle situation on a first display device and a second display device included in a plurality of display devices, and controlling display content in such a manner that display content of the second display device includes a vehicle situation that is likely, to occur at a later time with respect to the vehicle situation displayed on the first display device, and

displaying the estimated vehicle situation on a third display device included in the plurality of display devices, and controlling the display content in such a manner that display content of the third display device includes a vehicle situation that is likely to occur at a later time with respect to the vehicle situation displayed on the second display device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2019
From: TACHIBANA, ATSUKI; SAKATA, REIKO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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