Systems and methods for controlling a head-up display in a vehicle
AssigneeToyota Research Institute, Inc.
InventorHiroshi Yasuda
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Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling a head-up display (HUD) in a vehicle are disclosed herein. One embodiment deactivates the HUD in response to a command from a driver of the vehicle; assigns a level of urgency to an item of information associated with a current vehicular context; and activates the HUD to display the item of information to the driver, when the level of urgency exceeds a predetermined threshold.
Claims20
A system for controlling a head-up display (HUD) in a vehicle, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing:
- a HUD deactivation module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to deactivate the HUD, into a deactivate state, in response to a command from a driver of the vehicle to disable the HUD from displaying information related to vehicular context during operation of the vehicle;
- an urgency assessment module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to assign a level of urgency to an item of information associated with a current vehicular context;
- and
- a HUD activation module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to activate the HUD, from the deactivated state, to display the item of information to the driver, when the level of urgency exceeds a predetermined threshold to alert the driver of the urgency of the current vehicular context.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium for controlling a head-up display (HUD) in a vehicle and storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
- deactivate the HUD, into a deactivate state, in response to a command from a driver of the vehicle to disable the HUD from displaying information related to vehicular context during operation of the vehicle;
- assign a level of urgency to an item of information associated with a current vehicular context;
- and
- activate the HUD, from the deactivated state, to display the item of information to the driver, when the level of urgency exceeds a predetermined threshold to alert the driver of the urgency of the current vehicular context.
A method of controlling a head-up display (HUD) in a vehicle, the method comprising:
- deactivating the HUD, into a deactivate state, in response to a command from a driver of the vehicle to disable the HUD from displaying information related to vehicular context during operation of the vehicle;
- assigning a level of urgency to an item of information associated with a current vehicular context;
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- activating the HUD, from the deactivated state, to display the item of information to the driver, when the level of urgency exceeds a predetermined threshold to alert the driver of the urgency of the current vehicular context.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.