JP2007121796A - Display control device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display control device for displaying information effective for occupants and superior in visibility and operability. <P>SOLUTION: The display control device detects seats positions of the occupants in a vehicle (step S10), determines image information to be displayed in each display 6a-6n on the basis of image attribute information including the attribute of the image information of each on-vehicle application with a reference of the seating positions of the detected occupants (step S20), and displays the image information determined to be displayed in each of displays 6a-6n on the displays 6a-6n (step S30). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a display control device.

Conventionally, for example, according to the technique described in Patent Literature 1, in order to efficiently acquire only traffic information that is really necessary for the user, characters, figures, or symbols input by the user from the stored traffic information The traffic information related to the search information such as is extracted, and the extracted traffic information is displayed on the display.
JP 2000-90394 A

  Since the above prior art is for displaying information on one display, the case of displaying information on a plurality of displays is not considered. That is, for example, a conventional in-vehicle navigation device displays information on an instrument panel or a single display arranged in the vicinity thereof, and a plurality of displays are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction on the instrument panel, When information is displayed on each display, necessary (effective) information differs between the driver and the passenger. Therefore, it is desirable that information effective for each occupant is displayed on each display.

  In addition, as described above, when a plurality of displays are arranged side by side on the instrument panel, the information displayed on the display disposed away from the occupant is the information displayed on the display disposed near the occupant. Compared with visibility. Therefore, the information displayed on each display needs to consider visibility.

  Moreover, when the touch panel is provided in each display, the touch operation to the display arrange | positioned away from the passenger | crew is difficult compared with the touch operation to the display arrange | positioned near the passenger | crew. Therefore, the information displayed on each display needs to consider operability.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a display control device that can display information that is effective for an occupant and has good visibility and operability.

The display control device according to claim 1, which has been made to achieve the above object, includes display control means for displaying image information of an in-vehicle application on a plurality of displays arranged adjacent to each other in a vehicle interior. And
Occupant position detection means for detecting the position of the occupant of the vehicle;
Display information determination means for determining image information to be displayed for each display according to the position of the occupant detected by the occupant position detection means,
The display control means displays the image information to be displayed for each display determined by the display information determination means on each display.

  As a result, for example, it is determined that image information that is valid only for an occupant (driver) seated in the driver's seat is to be displayed on a display arranged near the driver, or seated in a passenger seat or rear seat. It is possible to determine that image information that is valid only for a passenger (passenger) who is present is to be displayed on a display arranged near the passenger. Therefore, it is possible to display image information that is effective for each occupant and has good visibility and operability.

  Further, as described in claim 2, the display size of the image information, the display character size of the image information, the occupant to whom the image information is to be provided, the urgency of the image information, and the image information require an input operation from the occupant Storage means for storing image attribute information including an attribute of at least one image information of whether the image information is a surrounding image of the vehicle, and the display information determination means It is preferable to determine image information to be displayed for each display based on image attribute information with reference to.

  Thus, for example, a display arranged near the occupant displays a small display size or display character size of the image information, and a display arranged away from the occupant displays the display size or display character size of the image information. Can display large ones. Further, for example, the display arranged near the occupant can display image information targeted for the occupant. As a result, the visibility of the image information is good for the occupant.

  Further, for example, image information with a high degree of urgency can be displayed on a display arranged near the driver, and image information with a low degree of urgency can be displayed on a display arranged near the passenger. As a result, the effectiveness of the image information for the occupant can be improved.

  For example, when each display has a touch panel that can be touch-operated, the display arranged near the driver displays image information that requires an input operation from the occupant, and the driver Image information that does not require an input operation from the occupant can be displayed on the display arranged away from the vehicle, or image information that can be input by a remote controller can be displayed. As a result, the operability for the image information is good for the occupant.

  In addition, for example, when the image information is a peripheral image of the vehicle such as an electronic side mirror, it is arranged in the same direction as the shooting direction of the peripheral image (for example, the right direction in the case of the peripheral image of the right side mirror). Can be displayed on the display. As a result, it is possible to display image information corresponding to the sense of direction of the occupant.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the display control means preferably displays image information of a plurality of in-vehicle applications on a plurality of displays. Thereby, the image information of a plurality of in-vehicle applications can be distributed and displayed on a plurality of displays.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the occupant position detection means includes a load sensor that detects a load applied to the vehicle seat, a captured image captured by an indoor camera that captures an indoor image, and an occupant input by the vehicle occupant. It is preferable to detect from at least one of the positions. This makes it possible to detect the position of the vehicle occupant.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the plurality of displays are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction in the indoor instrument panel or in the vicinity thereof. Thereby, it becomes possible to make the provision object of the image information displayed on a some display all crew members.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, an example in which the display control device of the present invention is realized as a function of an in-vehicle navigation device provided with a multi-display will be described.

  In FIG. 1, the whole structure of the vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus 1 and the multi display 6 is shown. As shown in FIG. 1, the in-vehicle navigation device 1 includes a storage unit 2, a real-time information acquisition unit 3, a control unit 4, a sensor group 5, an audio output unit 7, and an operation unit 8.

  The storage unit 2 is a storage device for storing various types of data including so-called map matching data for improving the accuracy of position detection, map data, image attribute information to be described later, and the like. CD (Compact Disk), DVD (Digital Versatile) Various data are stored in a storage medium such as a disc or HD (hard disk).

  The real-time information acquisition unit 3 includes a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, a direction sensor, a gyro sensor, a position detection unit that calculates current position information of the vehicle, and a VICS (Vehicle Information and Communication System). A VICS communication unit that acquires road traffic information including traffic jam information, traffic regulation information, construction information, and the like provided from the traffic information system, and a camera that captures images around the vehicle are provided.

  The sensor group 5 includes an acceleration sensor that detects acceleration generated in the vehicle, a steering sensor that detects a steering angle, an accelerator pedal operation sensor that detects an operation amount of an accelerator pedal, a brake pedal depression force sensor that detects a depression force of a brake pedal, a vehicle speed It consists of a sensor and a yaw rate sensor. These detection results are subjected to predetermined processing in the control unit 4 and, as shown in FIG. 5, average speed, sudden braking point, skidding point, risk determination on a predetermined route (for example, commuting road) to a certain point. It is displayed on the multi-display 6 as driving information indicating the location, fuel consumption (not shown), and the like. With this driving information, the driver can review the driving operation of the driver objectively.

  The multi-display 6 is composed of, for example, n (= 1, 2,..., K) liquid crystal displays. As shown in FIG. 2, the multi-display 6 is arranged on the instrument panel or the periphery thereof. They are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction. With such an arrangement, not only the driver but also the passenger seated in the passenger seat and the passenger seated in the rear seat can be targeted as targets for providing the image information displayed on the multi-display 6.

  Each of the displays 6a, 6b,..., 6n constituting the multi-display 6 is connected to the in-vehicle navigation device 1 and displays image information transmitted from the in-vehicle navigation device 1. In addition, the displays 6a, 6b,..., 6n include touch switches (touch panels) for touch operations, detect touch operations on the display by the occupant, and transmit the detection results to the in-vehicle navigation device 1. To do. The in-vehicle navigation device 1 performs an operation according to the detection result.

  The audio output unit 7 includes a speaker, an audio amplifier, and the like, and is used for audio guidance and the like. The operation unit 8 is, for example, the touch switch or the mechanical switch described above, and is used for various inputs.

  The control unit 4 executes a route guidance function that automatically selects an optimum route from the current position to the destination according to an operation on the operation unit 8 to form and display a guidance route, and also performs a map matching process. , Navigation functions such as guidance voice calculation and map drawing are performed.

  The in-vehicle navigation device 1 configured as described above is not limited to the image information of the navigation function described above, but also other in-vehicle applications (for example, night vision that displays an image of reflected light of infrared light irradiated in front of the vehicle, Image information from the left and right rear side images of the vehicle with a camera instead of the side mirror of the vehicle, an electronic side mirror that displays the captured image, a driving information providing function that displays the driving information described above, etc.) The information is distributed and displayed on the displays 6a, 6b,.

  Next, the characteristic part of this embodiment is demonstrated. The vehicle-mounted navigation device 1 according to the present embodiment determines image information for each vehicle-mounted application to be displayed for each of the displays 6a, 6b, ..., 6n according to the position of the occupant. The position of the occupant is based on a load sensor that detects a load applied to the vehicle seat, a captured image captured by an indoor camera that captures an indoor image, an occupant position input by the vehicle occupant, and the like (none of which are shown). To detect.

  Hereinafter, the display control process by the vehicle-mounted navigation device 1 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, in step S10 shown in FIG. 3, the seating position of the vehicle occupant is detected. In step S20, the image information to be displayed for each display 6a, 6b,..., 6n based on the image attribute information including the attribute of the image information for each in-vehicle application with reference to the seating position of the occupant detected in step S10. To decide.

  Here, the image attribute information is the display size of the image information, the display character size of the image information, the occupant to whom the image information is to be provided, the urgency of the image information, and the image information that requires an input operation from the occupant And whether the image information is a surrounding image of the vehicle.

  By this image attribute information, for example, a display arranged near the occupant is displayed with a small display size or display character size of the image information, and a display arranged away from the occupant is displayed with the display size of the image information or A large display character size can be displayed. Further, for example, the display arranged near the occupant can display image information targeted for the occupant. As a result, the visibility of the image information is good for the occupant.

  Further, for example, image information with a high degree of urgency can be displayed on a display arranged near the driver, and image information with a low degree of urgency can be displayed on a display arranged near the passenger. As a result, the effectiveness of the image information for the occupant can be improved.

  In addition, for example, when each display is provided with a touch panel that can be touch-operated as in the present embodiment, image information that requires an input operation from the occupant is placed on the display disposed near the driver. And display image information that does not require an input operation from the occupant, or display image information that can be input by a remote controller. it can. As a result, the operability for the image information is good for the occupant.

  In addition, for example, when the image information is a peripheral image of the vehicle such as an electronic side mirror, it is arranged in the same direction as the shooting direction of the peripheral image (for example, the right direction in the case of the peripheral image of the right side mirror). Can be displayed on the display. As a result, it is possible to display image information corresponding to the sense of direction of the occupant.

  In step S30, image information to be displayed for each of the displays 6a, 6b,..., 6n determined in step S20 is displayed on the displays 6a, 6b,. Thus, for example, image information that is valid only for the driver is determined to be displayed on a display arranged near the driver, or an image that is valid only for a passenger (passenger) seated in the passenger seat or the rear seat. The information can be determined to be displayed on a display arranged near the passenger. Therefore, it is possible to display image information that is effective for each occupant and has good visibility and operability.

  FIG. 4 shows a specific example of the image information of the multi display 6 below. 4 (a) and 4 (b) are diagrams showing an example of the case where the entire route guidance information is displayed when only the driver gets on, and FIG. 4 (c) shows the case where only the driver gets on. It is a figure which shows the example at the time of displaying the surrounding image of the vehicle by an electronic side mirror.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b), when only the driver gets on the vehicle, the entire route guidance information to the destination is displayed (continuous route guidance display) or arranged away from the driver. As the display is displayed, the amount of image information to be displayed can be reduced or enlarged.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 4C, when displaying a peripheral image of a vehicle such as an electronic side mirror, the same direction as the shooting direction of the peripheral image (for example, in the case of a peripheral image of the right side mirror) By displaying on the display arranged in the right direction), it is possible to correspond to the sense of direction of the occupant.

  Further, when an occupant (passenger) gets on the driver and the passenger seat, for example, the displays 6a, 6b,..., 6n are assigned as three displays on the driver seat side, the center, and the passenger seat side. On the display located in the center, both the driver and passengers display valid image information (for example, maps, traffic information such as traffic jams, and information on surrounding facilities at the current location), and the driver's seat and passenger seat On the side, image information that each occupant needs to operate can be displayed.

  For example, the display on the driver's seat side displays image information such as an air conditioner (air conditioner) and audio that requires operation, and image information indicating the vehicle speed, engine speed, shift position, etc. It is possible to display image information such as an air conditioner and audio, and entertainment-related image information such as game images, DVD images, video images, and TV images. Such entertainment-related image information may be prohibited from being displayed on the display on the driver's seat side.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

  For example, the multi-display of this embodiment is composed of a plurality of displays. For example, the multi-display is described in the URL “http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/050714-b.html”. When a dual view liquid crystal that simultaneously displays different image information on the left and right is employed as in the technology, two different image information can be displayed on one liquid crystal display.

  As described above, even when the dual view liquid crystal is employed, the image information to be displayed on each screen of the dual view liquid crystal can be determined based on the image attribute information described above with reference to the position of the occupant. Furthermore, even if a plurality of the dual view liquid crystal are arranged in the instrument panel or in the vicinity thereof in the vehicle width direction, each dual view liquid crystal is based on the image attribute information based on the position of the occupant. The image information to be displayed on each screen can be determined.

1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an in-vehicle navigation device 1 and a multi-display 6. FIG. It is a figure which shows arrangement | positioning of the multi display. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of display control processing executed by the in-vehicle navigation device 1. (A) And (b) is a figure which shows the example at the time of only a driver | operator getting on, and (c) is a figure which shows the example at the time of displaying the whole image of the route guidance information on the multi-display 6. It is a figure which shows the example at the time of displaying the surrounding image of the vehicle by an electronic side mirror in the multi-display 6. It is a figure which shows the example at the time of displaying driving information on the multi display.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 In-vehicle navigation apparatus 2 Memory | storage part 3 Real time information acquisition part 4 Control part 5 Sensor group 6 Multi display 7 Audio | voice output part 8 Operation part

Claims (5)

A display control device comprising display control means for displaying image information of an in-vehicle application on a plurality of displays arranged adjacent to each other in a vehicle interior,
Occupant position detection means for detecting the position of the occupant of the vehicle;
Display information determining means for determining the image information to be displayed for each display according to the position of the occupant detected by the occupant position detecting means,
The display control unit displays image information to be displayed for each display determined by the display information determination unit on each display. The display size of the image information, the display character size of the image information, an occupant to whom the image information is to be provided, the urgency of the image information, and whether the image information is information that requires an input operation from the occupant Storage means for storing image attribute information including at least one attribute of image information about whether and whether the image information is a surrounding image of the vehicle;
The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display information determination unit determines the display information based on the image attribute information with reference to the position of the occupant.   The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to display image information of a plurality of in-vehicle applications on the plurality of displays.   The occupant position detection means includes at least one of a load sensor that detects a load applied to a seat of the vehicle, a captured image captured by an indoor camera that captures the indoor image, and an occupant position input by the occupant of the vehicle. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control device is detected from the display.   5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of displays are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction in the indoor instrument panel or in the vicinity thereof.

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