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Granted Patent B2
US 11,367,418 · App. 16/838,194 · Granted Jun 21, 2022

Vehicle display device

Inventor: Takafumi Yamase (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 11,367,418
App. No.
16/838,194
Granted
Jun 21, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle display device includes: a projection device which includes a display surface for displaying an image and projects display light via an opening toward a reflection unit disposed to face a driver; an acquisition unit which acquires an eye position of the driver; and a controller which controls the projection device. The controller sets an image display area on the display surface so that the driver is capable of visually recognizing an image to be displayed according to the acquired eye position.

Claims (43)

1. A vehicle display device comprising:

a projection device that includes a display surface for displaying an image and projects display light via an opening toward a reflection unit disposed to face a driver;

an acquisition unit that acquires an eye position of the driver to determine a visible area of the display surface that is visible to either or both eyes of the driver; and

a controller that controls the projection device, wherein

the controller sets an image display area on the display surface to correspond to the visible area and, when it is determined that the visible area is visible to only one of the eyes, controls the projection device such that the entire image is displayed on the visible display area so that the only one of the eyes of the driver is capable of visually recognizing the entire image to be displayed according to the acquired eye position.

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

when display light projected from a partial area on the display surface is invisible to any of both eyes of the driver, the controller sets an area excluding the partial area on the display surface as the image display area.

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

when the image display area is reduced, the controller reduces a gap between designs included in the image.

4. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller reduces a gap between designs included in the image.

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

when the image display area is reduced, the controller changes an aspect ratio of a design included in the image.

6. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller changes an aspect ratio of a design included in the image.

7. The vehicle display device according to claim 3 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller changes an aspect ratio of a design included in the image.

8. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller tilts the design included in the image.

9. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller tilts the design included in the image.

10. The vehicle display device according to claim 3 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller tilts the design included in the image.

11. The vehicle display device according to claim 5 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller tilts the design included in the image.

12. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller makes a reduction degree of the design included in the image smaller than a reduction degree of the image display area.

13. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller makes a reduction degree of the design included in the image smaller than a reduction degree of the image display area.

14. The vehicle display device according to claim 3 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller makes a reduction degree of the design included in the image smaller than a reduction degree of the image display area.

15. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller simplifies the design included in the image.

16. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

when the image display area is reduced, the controller makes the number of the designs included in the image after the reduction of the image display area smaller than that before the reduction of the image display area.

17. The vehicle display device according to claim 16 , wherein

in a priority order of the designs included in the image, a position of a design of information with high urgency, importance, or driver preference is higher than positions of other designs.

18. The vehicle display device according to of claim 3 , wherein

a direction in which the image display area is reduced is an image lateral direction or an image vertical direction.

19. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

when the image display area is changed, the controller evenly reduces or enlarges an image in the image display area.

20. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller sets the image display area on the display surface so that the driver is capable of visually recognizing the entire displayed image with at least one eye.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 2, 2020
From: YAMASE, TAKAFUMI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052294/0835 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-072896 · Apr 5, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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