Display apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkinari Hirao, Satoshi Kitazaki, Kenji Ono, Shunsuke Hijikata, Kazuhito Kato, Yoshiharu Nakaji
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Abstract
A display unit is disposed in front of a driver's seat in a front central region of a passenger compartment of a vehicle. A sensor senses a condition, such as a driver's eye position, an outside brightness and a steering frequency, affecting the uneasiness of a driver caused by the display screen. A controller reduces the size of a picture display region in accordance with the condition to achieve an agreeable size and position of picture on the screen.
Claims19
A display apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a display unit comprising a screen presenting information to a driver, the display unit being disposed in a front central region of a passenger compartment;
- a sensor section comprising an eye position sensor to sense an eye position of the driver;
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- a controller to reduce a size of a display region on the screen of the display unit and to shift a position of the display region in the screen upwardly toward a driver's seat's side as the eye position moves forward.
A display apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a display unit comprising a screen presenting information to a driver of a vehicle, the display unit being located in a front region of a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
- an outside brightness sensor to sense a brightness outside the vehicle;
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- a controller to vary a size of a display region in the screen of the display unit in accordance with the brightness sensed by the outside brightness sensor.
A display apparatus comprising:
- a display unit comprising a screen presenting information to a driver of a vehicle, the display unit being disposed in a front region of a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
- a sensor section comprising a steering frequency sensor to sense a driver's steering frequency;
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- a controller to reduce a size of a display region on the screen of the display unit when the steering frequency increases.
A display apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- means for presenting visual representation in a display region on a screen located in a front region of a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
- means for sensing an eye position of a driver relative to the screen;
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- means for altering the size of the display region on the screen in accordance with the eye position of the driver.
A display control process for a vehicle, comprising:
- sensing an eye position of a driver relative to a screen of a display unit in a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
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- increasing the size of a display region within the screen when the eye position is shifted rearward away from the screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.