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Granted Patent B2
US 12,459,357 · App. 18/457,751 · Granted Nov 4, 2025

Vehicle display device

Inventor: Atsushi Ito (Niigata, JP)
Assignee: Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
B60K35/22B60K35/81B60K35/28B60K2360/16
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Patent No.
US 12,459,357
App. No.
18/457,751
Granted
Nov 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a vehicle display device with high reliability from the viewpoint of functional stability. A vehicle display device of the present disclosure includes a display displaying an image and a multicore causing the display to display an image representing vehicle information. The includes a first processor core performing normal display control under which the display is caused to display the vehicle information in normal times, and a second processor core performing alternative display control under which the display is caused to display the vehicle information in a false display state where the vehicle information is not correctly displayed on the display under the normal display control.

Claims (27)

1 . A vehicle display device comprising:

a display displaying an image; and

a multicore SOC causing the display to display an image representing vehicle information, wherein

the SOC includes therein a first processor core performing normal display control under which the display is caused to display the vehicle information in normal times, and a second processor core performing alternative display control in place of the first processor core under which the display is caused to display the vehicle information in a false display state where the vehicle information is not correctly displayed on the display under the normal display control.

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

the SOC causes the display to display a screen obtained by combining a plurality of layers,

the first processor core draws a first image representing the vehicle information on a first layer under the normal display control, and

the second processor core draws a second image representing the vehicle information on a second layer above the first layer under the alternative display control.

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

the first image includes a traveling speed, a warning lamp, and a vehicle automatic control state, and

the second image does not include the vehicle automatic control state and includes the traveling speed and the warning lamp.

4 . The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein the SOC causes the first processor core to restart when determining the false display state.

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

the SOC includes a third processor core drawing a third image representing the vehicle information on a third layer positioned between the first layer and the second layer,

the second processor core starts up prior to the first processor core and the third processor core at startup of the SOC, and

the third processor core starts up prior to the first processor core after the second processor core starts up at the startup of the SOC and draws the third image on the third layer until the first processor core starts the normal display control.

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

the first image does not include an opening performance image,

the second image does not include the opening performance image, and

the third image does not include a traveling speed, does not include a vehicle automatic control state, and includes a warning lamp and the opening performance image.

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

the first processor core draws the first image on the first layer through 3D drawing,

the second processor core draws the second image on the second layer through bit block transfer, and

the third processor core draws the third image on the third layer through 2D drawing.

8 . The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein the SOC determines the false display state when abnormality in an operation clock of the first processor core is detected.

9 . The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein the SOC determines the false display state when an error in data drawn on the first layer is detected.

10 . The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein the SOC determines the false display state when an error in video signal data output to the display is detected.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2023
From: ITO, ATSUSHI
To: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 064754/0759 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-152259 · Sep 26, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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