US5801667A
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Vehicle display which reduces driver's recognition time of alarm display
Assignee: Nissan Motor Co Ltd
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Filing: 1995-05-12
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Granted: 1998-09-01
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Expires: 2015-05-12
Abstract
Abstract A vehicle display device including an information display unit for displaying prescribed information for a vehicle, an alarm need state detection unit for detecting a prescribed state where an alarm for the vehicle is needed, an alarm display unit for performing an alarm display on the basis of the detection of the alarm need state detection unit, an eye-fixed target detection unit for detecting an object on which a driver fixes his eyes as an eye-fixed target, a display cancel unit for canceling the eye-fixed target or its neighboring information display, and a delay unit for controlling the alarm display unit to perform the alarm display after a predetermined time lapse from the display cancellation of the display cancel unit.
Inventors
- 👤 Youji Shimizu
- 👤 Takayuki Yanagishima
- 👤 Tomio Jindo
- 👤 Wataru Yagihashi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 12:56
CPC Classifications
B; B60; B60R; B60R16/00; B60R16/02; B60R16/023; B60R16/0231; H; H04; H04N; H04N7/00; H04N7/18; H04N7/183
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
125 words
A vehicle display system, comprising: a first information display; an alarm display; an alarm state detector; a circuit responsive to detection of an alarm state by the alarm state detector, for canceling the first information display and activating the alarm display after a predetermined time has elapsed after the cancellation of the first information display; a second information display; and a target detector for determining whether a driver's eyes are fixed on the first or the second information display, wherein the circuit cancels the first information display if the target detector determines that the driver's eyes are fixed on the first information display and cancels the second information display if the target detector determines that the driver's eyes are fixed on the second information display.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
125 words
A vehicle display system, comprising: a first information display; an alarm display; an alarm state detector; a circuit responsive to detection of an alarm state by the alarm state detector, for canceling the first information display and activating the alarm display after a predetermined time has elapsed after the cancellation of the first information display; a second information display; and a target detector for determining whether a driver's eyes are fixed on the first or the second information display, wherein the circuit cancels the first information display if the target detector determines that the driver's eyes are fixed on the first information display and cancels the second information display if the target detector determines that the driver's eyes are fixed on the second information display.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
53 words
The vehicle display system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the target detector comprises a line-of-sight detector having an eye camera for producing a signal in accordance with movements of the driver's eyes, the signal being used to determine whether the driver's eyes are fixed on the first or the second information display.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
111 words
A vehicle display device, comprising: an information display unit for displaying a prescribed information for a vehicle; an alarm need state detector for detecting a prescribed state where an alarm for the vehicle is needed; an alarm display unit for displaying an alarm on the basis of the detection of said alarm need state detector; an eye-fixed target detector for detecting an eye-fixed target on which driver's eyes are fixed; a display cancel circuit for canceling the prescribed information display near the eye-fixed target; and a delay circuit for controlling said alarm display unit displaying an alarm after a predetermined time lapses from the display cancellation by said display cancel circuit.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
111 words
A vehicle display device, comprising: an information display unit for displaying a prescribed information for a vehicle; an alarm need state detector for detecting a prescribed state where an alarm for the vehicle is needed; an alarm display unit for displaying an alarm on the basis of the detection of said alarm need state detector; an eye-fixed target detector for detecting an eye-fixed target on which driver's eyes are fixed; a display cancel circuit for canceling the prescribed information display near the eye-fixed target; and a delay circuit for controlling said alarm display unit displaying an alarm after a predetermined time lapses from the display cancellation by said display cancel circuit.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
46 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said display cancel circuit is provided with an attention call circuit for inducing a display variation to the prescribed information delay near the eye-fixed target just before said display cancel circuit carries out the display cancellation.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
30 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said delay circuit alters the predetermined time to be delayed in accordance with an emergency degree of the alarm display.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
59 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 4, further including a physiological state detector for detecting a physiological state of a driver, and a physiology response varying circuit for varying at least one of said attention call circuit, said delay circuit and said alarm display unit in accordance with the physiological state detected by said physiological state detector.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
50 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 4, further including vehicle state detector for detecting a vehicle running state and vehicle response varying circuit for varying at least one of said attention call circuit, said delay circuit and said alarm display unit in accordance with the vehicle running state.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
56 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 4, further including environmental state detector for detecting an environmental state of the running vehicle and environment response varying circuit for varying at least one of said attention call circuit, said delay circuit and said alarm display unit in accordance with the environmental state of the running vehicle.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
40 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said attention call circuit performs at least one of variation of brightness, variation of color, variation of size and turning on-and-off of the prescribed information display near the eye-fixed target.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
59 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said alarm display unit changes the position of the alarm display in accordance with variation of the eye-fixed target, and said alarm display unit is provided with alarm display position altering circuit for altering the position of the alarm display in accordance with the variation of the eye-fixed target.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
29 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 10, wherein said alarm display unit changes the alarm display position in accordance with an emergency degree of the alarm display.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
53 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 11 wherein, when the eye-fixed target is a meter cluster or a navigation system, said alarm display unit displays on a head-up display an alarm whose emergency degree is not so high, and displays within the eye-fixed target an alarm whose emergency degree is high.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
39 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 10, wherein when the eye-fixed target is a speedometer of the meter cluster, said display cancel circuit displays a speed on the head-up display just after a speedometer display is canceled.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
38 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said display cancel circuit cancels display of information other than the alarm display and reduces display brightness when the prescribed information display near the eye-fixed target is canceled.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
18 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said eye-fixed target detector comprises a line-of-sight detector.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
29 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said eye-fixed detector judges, as the eye-fixed target, an information display just before a switch-on operation by a driver.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
113 words
The vehicle display device as claimed in claims 3, wherein said eye-fixed target detector detects, as the eye-fixed target, an information display corresponding to an operation of a driver, wherein said delay circuit sets a predetermined time for an alarm display whose emergency degree is not high while said delay circuit does not set a predetermined time for an alarm display whose emergency degree is high, and wherein said alarm display unit displays the alarm display whose emergency degree is not high after the operation of the driver is completed while said alarm display unit displays the alarm display of high emergency degree within the information display during the operation of the driver.
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