US 9,849,832 B2Granted

Information presentation system

AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsHiroki Mori, Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Ayako Shimizu, Yuichi Kumai, Yuma Kawamori, Takeshi Matsumura, Tsukasa Shimizu, Yasuo Sakaguchi

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Abstract

A system for presenting information to an occupant of a vehicle mounted with an autonomous driving system, includes: a display unit configured to display the information; a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display information in any one of display modes among a setting status display mode in which setting information is displayed, an operation status display mode in which travel information is displayed, and a recognition status display mode in which recognition result information of the autonomous driving system is displayed; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire an occupant's display mode switching instruction for switching the display mode, wherein the display control unit configured to switch the display mode of the display unit when the acquisition unit acquires the occupant's display mode switching instruction.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A vehicle comprising:

an internal sensor configured to detect a travelling state of the vehicle which includes at least one of a speed, an acceleration, a yaw rate, of the vehicle;
an external sensor configured to detect surrounding information of the vehicle;
an travel control unit configured to control a travel plan in an autonomous driving, wherein at least one of an speed and steering are controlled in the autonomous driving;
a display unit configured to display an information;
a display control unit configured to switch the display mode in response to an input by the occupant of the vehicle, among three modes, wherein the three modes are:
(A) a setting status display mode in which setting information for the travel plan determined by the occupant or the travel control unit is displayed,
(B) an operation status display mode in which information relating to a travel state resulting from a control by the travel control unit is displayed, and
(C) a recognition status display mode in which a recognition result by the external sensor is displayed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/193,192Filed 27 Jun 2016
Priority: JP 2015-14411021 Jul 2015
Published: US 2017/0021765 A126 Jan 2017
Granted: 26 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B60Q 9/00
Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of
B60R 1/24
With a predetermined field of view: in front of the vehicle
B60R 2300/302
Characterised by the type of image processing: combining image information with GPS information or vehicle data, e.g. vehicle speed, gyro,…
B60R 2300/305
Using merged images, e.g. merging camera image with stored images: merging camera image with lines or icons