US 7,742,857 B2Granted

Automotive information display system

AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation

InventorsTaro Iwamoto, Yoshihisa Okamoto, Toshihiro Hara

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Abstract

An information display system for a vehicle includes: a display for displaying, an operation screen for operating at least one piece of in-vehicle equipment; a first operation section including a leftward moving switch, a rightward moving switch, and a selection enter switch capable of being manipulated upward and downward and being pushed; and a controller. The controller changes a position of the operation menu selected point in the operation menus horizontally arranged on the operation screen for selecting any one of the operation menus in response to a manipulation signal from the leftward moving switch or the rightward moving switch and executes an operation relating to the selected operation menu in response to an upward or downward manipulation signal from the selection enter switch.

Claims48

Dependent claims

An automotive information display system, comprising:

a display for displaying, as an operation screen for operating at least one piece of in-vehicle equipment, an operation screen in which a plurality of horizontally arranged operation menus are indicated and which allows, upon selection of any one of the plurality of operation menus, an operation relating to the selected operation menu;
a first operation section including:
a leftward moving switch to which a function of moving an operation menu selected point leftward on the operation screen is assigned;
a rightward moving switch to which a function of moving the operation menu selected point rightward on the operation screen is assigned;
and a selection enter switch capable of being manipulated upward and downward and being pushed;
and
a controller for changing a position of the operation menu selected point in the operation menus horizontally arranged on the operation screen for selecting any one of the operation menus in response to a manipulation signal from the leftward moving switch or the rightward moving switch and for executing an operation relating to the selected operation menu in response to an upward or downward manipulation signal from the selection enter switch.

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An automotive information display system, comprising:

a main display for displaying, as an operation screen for operating at least one piece of in-vehicle equipment, an operation screen in which a plurality of horizontally arranged first hierarchy operation menus are indicated and which indicates, upon selection of any one of the plurality of first hierarchy operation menus, vertically arranged second hierarchy operation menus belonging to the selected first hierarchy operation menu;
a concentrated display for displaying an operation screen in which horizontally arranged operation menus indicating respective pieces of information on respective plural pieces of independent in-vehicle equipment are indicated;
an operation section including:
a leftward moving switch to which a function of moving an operation menu selected point leftward on each operation screen of the main display and the concentrated display is assigned;
a rightward moving switch to which a function of moving the operation menu selected point rightward thereon is assigned;
a selection enter switch capable of being manipulated upward and downward and being pushed;
and a switch for exchanging a display operation target between the main display and the concentrated display;
and
a controller, which receives an operation signal from the operation section, for performing display control on the main display and the concentrated display,
wherein when the display operation target is set to the main display, the controller changes a position of the operation menu selected point in the first hierarchy operation menus arranged horizontally on the operation screen of the main display in response to a manipulation signal from the leftward moving switch or the rightward moving switch, changes the position of the operation menu selected point in the second hierarchy operation menus arranged vertically thereon for selecting a second hierarchy operation menu therefrom in response to an upward or downward manipulation signal from the selection enter switch, and enters the selected second hierarchy operation menu in response to a pushing signal from the selection enter switch,
when the display operation target is set to the concentrated display, the controller changes the position of the operation menu selected point in the operation menus arranged horizontally on the operation screen of the concentrated display for selecting an operation menu therefrom in response to a manipulation signal from the leftward moving switch or the rightward moving switch, and changes setting of information corresponding to the selected operation menu in response to upward or downward manipulation signal from the selection enter switch, and
the leftward moving switch is arranged on the left side of the selection enter switch while the rightward moving switch is arranged on the right side of the selection enter switch.

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An automotive information display system, comprising:

a main display for displaying, as an operation screen for operating at least one piece of in-vehicle equipment, an operation screen in which a plurality of horizontally arranged first hierarchy operation menus are indicated and which indicates, upon selection of any one of the plurality of first hierarchy operation menus, vertically arranged second hierarchy operation menus belonging to the selected first hierarchy operation menu;
a concentrated display for displaying an operation screen in which horizontally arranged operation menus indicating respective pieces of information on respective plural pieces of independent in-vehicle equipment are indicated;
an operation section including:
a leftward moving switch to which a function of moving an operation menu selected point leftward on each operation screen of the main display and the concentrated display is assigned;
a rightward moving switch to which a function of moving the operation menu selected point rightward thereon is assigned;
a selection enter switch capable of being manipulated upward and downward and being pushed;
and a switch for exchanging a display operation target between the main display and the concentrated display;
and
a controller, which receives an operation signal from the operation section, for performing display control on the main display and the concentrated display,
wherein when the display operation target is set to the main display, the controller changes a position of the operation menu selected point in the first hierarchy operation menus arranged horizontally on the operation screen of the main display in response to a manipulation signal from the leftward moving switch or the rightward moving switch, changes the position of the operation menu selected point in the second hierarchy operation menus arranged vertically thereon for selecting a second hierarchy operation menu therefrom in response to an upward or downward manipulation signal from the selection enter switch, and enters the selected second hierarchy operation menu in response to a pushing signal from the selection enter switch,
when the display operation target is set to the concentrated display, the controller changes the position of the operation menu selected point in the operation menus arranged horizontally on the operation screen of the concentrated display for selecting an operation menu therefrom in response to a manipulation signal from the leftward moving switch or the rightward moving switch, and changes setting of information corresponding to the selected operation menu in response to upward or downward manipulation signal from the selection enter switch, and
the operation section is mounted at a steering wheel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/606,122Filed 30 Nov 2006
Priority: JP 2005-3533307 Dec 2005
Published: US 2007/0126698 A17 Jun 2007
Granted: 22 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 3/0482
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G01C 21/3664
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G01C 21/3688
Input/output arrangements for on-board computers: systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices , e.g. detachable faceplates, key…
G06F 2203/04801
Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/048: cursor retrieval aid, i.e. visual aspect modification, blinking, colour changes, enlargement or other…