Vehicle display device
AssigneeNippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
InventorMakoto Hada
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AssigneeNippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
InventorMakoto Hada
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A head-up display device as a vehicle display device projects display light onto a front windshield of a vehicle, displays a virtual image by reflected display light, on the front windshield, so as to be superimposed on a real scene transparent through the front windshield, captures an image of a driver of the vehicle by projecting infrared light onto the driver, and detects the positions of the eyes of the driver based on the captured image. A control unit detects the position of a feature point of the face of the driver in the captured image and stores a positional relationship with the detected positions of the eyes, and, when it is difficult to detect the positions of the eyes in die captured image, estimates a viewpoint position of the driver based on the position of the feature point detected at this time and the positional relationship stored beforehand.
A vehicle display device, which projects display light onto a reflective light-transmissive member provided in a vehicle, generates a virtual image by the display light reflected by the reflective light-transmissive member and displays the virtual image to be superimposed on an actual view, which is seen transparently through the reflective light-transmissive member, and also projects infrared light onto a user of the vehicle to capture an image of the user, thereby enabling detection of a viewpoint position of the user based on the captured image, the vehicle display device comprising:
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