Vehicle display control device, vehicle display control method, recording medium recorded with vehicle display control program, and vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakahiro Hirota
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Abstract
A vehicle display control device acquires position information of a detection object ahead of a vehicle. The vehicle display control device generates an image indicating a direction from the vehicle toward the detection object based on the acquired position information of the detection object. When the generated image is displayed on a display area in front of a driver's seat of the vehicle, the vehicle display control device causes display of the image overlaid on a forward scene of the vehicle while limiting display of the image in a specific region inside the display area.
Claims9
A vehicle display control device comprising a memory and a processor connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
- acquire position information of a detection object ahead of a vehicle;
- generate an image indicating a direction from the vehicle toward the detection object based on the acquired position information of the detection object;
- when the generated image is displayed on a display area in front of a driver's seat of the vehicle, cause display of the image to be overlaid on a forward scene of the vehicle while limiting display of the image by not displaying the image in a specific region inside the display area, the image extends from a lower portion of the display area toward the detection object as seen by the vehicle driver;
- cause display of the image from the lower portion of the display area as far as a location corresponding to the detection object in a case in which a distance between the vehicle and the detection object is not greater than a reference distance set according to a reference height;
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- cause display of the image from the lower portion of the display area as far as a location corresponding to the reference height in a case in which the distance between the vehicle and the detection object exceeds the reference distance set according to the reference height.
A vehicle display control method comprising, by a processor:
- acquiring position information of a detection object ahead of a vehicle;
- generating an image indicating a direction from the vehicle toward the detection object based on the acquired position information of the detection object;
- when the generated image is displayed on a display area in front of a driver's seat of the vehicle, causing display of the image to be overlaid on a forward scene of the vehicle while limiting display of the image by not displaying the image in a specific region inside the display area, the image extends from a lower portion of the display area toward the detection object as seen by the vehicle driver;
- causing display of the image from the lower portion of the display area as far as a location corresponding to the detection object in a case in which a distance between the vehicle and the detection object is not greater than a reference distance set according to a reference height;
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- causing display of the image from the lower portion of the display area as far as a location corresponding to the reference height in a case in which the distance between the vehicle and the detection object exceeds the reference distance set according to the reference height.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a vehicle display control program that is executable by a processor to perform processing comprising:
- acquiring position information of a detection object ahead of a vehicle;
- generating an image indicating a direction from the vehicle toward the detection object based on the acquired position information of the detection object;
- when the generated image is displayed on a display area in front of a driver's seat of the vehicle, causing display of the image to be overlaid on a forward scene of the vehicle while limiting display of the image by not displaying the image in a specific region inside the display area, the image extends from a lower portion of the display area toward the detection object as seen by the vehicle driver;
- causing display of the image from the lower portion of the display area as far as a location corresponding to the detection object in a case in which a distance between the vehicle and the detection object is not greater than a reference distance set according to a reference height;
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- causing display of the image from the lower portion of the display area as far as a location corresponding to the reference height in a case in which the distance between the vehicle and the detection object exceeds the reference distance set according to the reference height.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.