Image display apparatus for displaying a view outside a vehicle as activated when occupant gets out of the vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShimon Inoue
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Abstract
An image display apparatus includes: cameras each configured to take an image representing a view outside a vehicle; displays each configured to display the image taken by a corresponding one of the cameras; and a controller configured to control the cameras and the displays. The controller detects a first action that is a preliminary action taken by an occupant of the vehicle to get out of the vehicle in a state in which the cameras and the displays are not activated. When the first action is detected, the controller activates at least one of the cameras and at least one of the displays and control the at least one of the displays to display an image taken by the at least one of the cameras.
Claims11
An image display apparatus, comprising:
- a driver's-seat-side camera provided at a driver's seat side of a vehicle and configured to take an image representing a view outside the vehicle;
- as assistant-driver's-seat-side camera provided at an assistant-driver's seat side of the vehicle and configured to take an image representing a view outside the vehicle;
- a driver's-seat-side display provided at the driver's seat side of the vehicle and configured to display the image taken by the driver's-seat-side camera;
- an assistant-driver's-seat-side display provided at the assistant-driver's seat side of the vehicle and configured to display the image taken by the assistant-driver's-seat-side camera;
- a driver's-seat-side detector provided at the driver's seat side of the vehicle and configured to detect a preliminary action taken by an occupant of the vehicle to get out of the vehicle via a driver's-seat-side door of the vehicle;
- an assistant-driver's-seat-side detector provided at the assistant-driver's seat side of the vehicle and configured to detect a preliminary action taken by an occupant of the vehicle to get out of the vehicle via an assistant-driver's-seat-side door of the vehicle;
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- a controller configured to:
- detect, as a first action, the preliminary action detected by the driver's-seat-side detector or the preliminary action detected by the assistant-driver's-seat-side detector in a state in which the driver's-seat-side camera, the assistant-driver's-seat-side camera, the driver's-seat-side display, and the assistant-driver's-seat-side display are not activated;
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- when the first action is the preliminary action detected by the driver's-seat-side detector, activate the driver's-seat-side camera and the driver's-seat-side display, without activating the assistant-driver's-seat-side camera and the assistant-driver's-seat-side display, to display an image taken by the driver's-seat-side camera;
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- when the first action is the preliminary action detected by the assistant-driver's-seat-side detector, activate the assistant-driver's-seat-side camera and the assistant-driver's-seat-side display, without activating the driver's-seat-side camera and the driver's-seat-side display, to display an image taken by the assistant-driver's-seat-side camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.