Information providing device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsLei TIAN, Yuichi ONEDA
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Abstract
An information providing device is equipped with one or more displays that display notification information, a camera that acquires information of a vehicle occupant, a vehicle occupant detection unit that detects a field of view of the vehicle occupant, a display determination unit that determines whether or not there is a display that lies within the field of view, a display decision unit that makes a decision, on the basis of the determination of the display determination unit, regarding a notification display to allow the notification information to be displayed, and a notification control unit that controls the one or more displays.
Claims6
An information providing device configured to provide notification information to a vehicle occupant, comprising:
- one or more displays configured to display the notification information;
- a camera configured to acquire information of a vehicle occupant;
- a vehicle occupant detection unit configured to detect, on a basis of the image information, a field of view of the vehicle occupant;
- a display determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is a display that lies within the field of view of the vehicle occupant, based on the field of view of the vehicle occupant detected by the vehicle occupant detection unit, and position information of the one or more displays;
- a display decision unit configured to make a decision, on a basis of a determination result of the display determination unit, regarding a notification display to allow the notification information to be displayed;
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- a notification control unit configured to control the one or more displays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.